Parents - Do you drive your kids to school?

Wile E. Coyote

So how many of you out there drive your brats kids to and from school every day?

orourkeda

I prefer driving over kids going to school

starbelgrade

I drop my kids off at the pool every morning.

Banned Account

Lazy feckers should walk - when I were a lad ...

Ms. Captain M

Walk, but it's only 5 minutes away

Adam

it's 9am. do you know where you're children are??!

Wile E. Coyote

Adam wrote: »

it's 9am. do you know where you're children are??!

Still inside me I hope!

Ms. Captain M

Adam wrote: »

it's 9am. do you know where you're children are??!

Eh yes......at school?

King Felix

Adam wrote: »

it's 9am. do you know where you're children are??!

At the After Hours Club; looking for drugs, dirty dancing and listening to pounding, pounding techno music.

starbelgrade

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

Still inside me I hope!

You have children inside you? What the f*ck are you - a kangaroo?

WindSock

starbelgrade wrote: »

You have children inside you? What the f*ck are you - a kangaroo?

Or pregnant with twins or more...

I can't really complain on this issue as I drive to work that is served enough by public transport. However driving in is much quicker and I hate people.

Adam

Adam wrote: »

it's 9am. do you know where you're children are??!

Are you calling me a child :mad:

stovelid

WindSock wrote: »

I can't really complain on this issue as I drive to work that is served enough by public transport. However driving in is much quicker and I hate people.

I started getting the bus again recently after driving. Don't worry, the other passengers don't make you sit round a campfire and sing Ging Gang Goolie or anything.

Pherekydes

Yes. Tuesdays are tough. Up at 5, drive #1 son to swimming pool. Home by 7.30, drive kids to secondary (if the weather's ok they walk, it's 25 minutes), then last kid to primary school on the way home, which is 4k from the house.

By 9 am, I've driven 90 mins and run/walked 50.

WindSock

stovelid wrote: »

I started getting the bus again recently after driving. Don't worry, the other passengers don't make you sit round a campfire and sing Ging Gang Goolie or anything.

Maybe not on your route...

phill106

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

So how many of you out there drive your brats kids to and from school every day?

Herself drives 4 year old the mile or 2 it is to playschool. How about you Wile? Drive to work?

Adam

bluewolf wrote: »

Are you calling me a child :mad:

que?

mdebets

Driving kids to school, what has the word come to?

When I was a id, we were walking 3 hours in the morning to school up a very steep mountain. And in the evening we were walking back another 3 hours up a very steep mountain.
When we would have ask our prents to drive us to school, they would have driven us in the opposite direcion, so we would have to walk 6 hours in the morning.

stovelid

There is not a chance in hell I'll be driving my sons to secondary school if it's under, say, 30/40 minutes walk and it isn't pissing rain. I wouldn't have wanted a lift when I was a kid anyway: liked walking to school (25 minutes walk) and chatting with my mates.

I know somebody (full-time mother) that drives her kids to primary school about 5-10 minutes walk away.

up for anything

Where is the sometimes and only some of them option?

Einhard

mdebets wrote: »

Driving kids to school, what has the word come to?

When I was a id, we were walking 3 hours in the morning to school up a very steep mountain. And in the evening we were walking back another 3 hours up a very steep mountain.
When we would have ask our prents to drive us to school, they would have driven us in the opposite direcion, so we would have to walk 6 hours in the morning.

When yourself, ego and super ego used to trek all those miles to school!

professore

1 in Primary - wife yes most of the time - distance is about 1 mile but up a very steep hill so coming home is OK but going is tough for a 5 year old. Sometimes wife collects her on foot weather permitting.

1 in Secondary - takes bus to school 5 miles away.

And no she doesn't have an SUV - a 98 Xantia diesel with 150K miles on the clock.

Nijmegen

Some of the driving done by parents in the morning (and the afternoon) is amazing to behold. I watched two women this morning block up a bus stop, get out, and walk off to the school (within sight) with the kids.

People at the bus stop had to traipse through wet and muddy grass to get on the bus.

Serves them right, for heading out to their jobs, to pay their taxes to the department of education.

_feedback_

Drive them? Jaysus.

When I was a young fella, we didn't even have a car. You'd be sent off in your bare feet, with a sod of turf in yer hand.

TheZohanS

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

So how many of you out there drive your brats kids to and from school every day?

Wear a condom.

stovelid

Nijmegen wrote: »

I watched two women this morning block up a bus stop, get out, and walk off to the school (within sight) with the kids.

People at the bus stop had to traipse through wet and muddy grass to get on the bus.

I would have performed some spontaneous key art on said vehicles.

Einhard

TheZohan wrote: »

Wear a condom.

On your head.

That'll stop 'em asking you for lifts everywhere.

Gummy Panda

WindSock wrote: »

Or pregnant with twins or more...

I can't really complain on this issue as I drive to work that is served enough by public transport. However driving in is much quicker and I hate people.

And we hate you! :mad:

phasers

What ever happened to school buses?

thebigbiffo

of course i drive them

larry murphy lives within a 3,000 mile radius of them

cynder

No school buses where i am, drive 2 boys 5 and 3 to school and preschool 5km away, drive my lady (almost 11) in the other direction 3 km away.

I did however drop a neighbours child to my sons school today as she had to leave early for work.

When i was a kid i had to walk 4 mile every day down and up a mountain (we lived at the top of the mountain) to a school in killavullen in co. cork

Wile E. Coyote

phill106 wrote: »

How about you Wile? Drive to work?

Yep. The 190km round trip everyday would be a bit much on a bicycle

Wolfe Tone

Let the little fcukers walk. I walked 40 mins every morning, did me no harm.

pickarooney

I bring him on the bike.

littlehedgehog

Really wish people would carpool or use public transport as much as possible when getting kids to school - the increase in traffic in september is absolutely mental bumper to freakin' bumper where I live. Thankfully I can get the dart!
When I was a young 'un.. Well, my mam was a teacher in my secondary school however if she was free last class, we'd walk the 45 minutes home because getting into town around school closing was literally impossible. Parents parking up on paths, in the middle of the road, the whole way up the entrance to the school so the teachers couldn't leave.. God forbid their children would have to walk 5 minutes up town where there was plenty of parking. Mental.

Wile E. Coyote

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

Yep. The 190km round trip everyday would be a bit much on a bicycle

Well with that attitude you'll never do it.

jimmycrackcorm

I'm always late so yes I have to drive instead of walking.

phill106

grindelwald wrote: »

No school buses where i am, drive 2 boys 5 and 3 to school and preschool 5km away, drive my lady (almost 11) in the other direction 3 km away.

Your lady is almost 11?
Oh dear.... Unfortunate typo!

phill106

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

Yep. The 190km round trip everyday would be a bit much on a bicycle

Surely you have some form of rocket powered bicycle?
Possibly involving a large fuse and the comical insertion of a large cliff?

phill106

phill106 wrote: »

Your lady is almost 11?
Oh dear.... Unfortunate typo!

Thought he meant his daughter was 11? How's that a typo?

phill106

bluewolf wrote: »

Thought he meant his daughter was 11? How's that a typo?

Jeez i thought his lady was his wife or something!hehe

galah

mdebets wrote: »

Driving kids to school, what has the word come to?

When I was a id, we were walking 3 hours in the morning to school up a very steep mountain. And in the evening we were walking back another 3 hours up a very steep mountain.

In the snow, all year round, barefoot with a bag of coal on your back. Same here, actually.

But seriously, I wonder why on earth traffic is so bad every September. Surely most of the kids around the same area go to the same school, so could they not at least share rides with their mates? Or organise a school bus? From 'it takes 20 minutes to work' to 'it takes 50 at best if you leave after 8 am' is a huge increase...

Do mothers have nothing else to do but drive their darlings in? (and, incidentally, have the biggest, ost annoying cars that they are rarely able to handle even on a good day?)

What about 'catchment' areas? All primary and secondary school kids attend schools within a certain area?

(and the older kids could take the bus where needs be...)

or start school that bit earlier, so that you don't have the work 9 am trffic AND all the school traffic in at the same time. surely that would be better for working parents as well? Our school started at 7.30 am, as far as I recall...

dvpower

I drive them 200 meters to where the school bus picks them up.
I didn't know what option to pick on the poll.:)

orourkeda

Adam wrote: »

it's 9am. do you know where you're children are??!

still in my scrotum