anncoates wrote: » Kids are hardly going to be walking or getting the bus to school unaccompanied until at least 4th or 5th class. I assume it's far more common these days to have both parents working and if so, they probably might have to drive on to work after dropping kids off. If kids have a parent that isn't working, fair enough it's slothful not to walk to school if it's within walking distance.
dxhound2005 wrote: » I had to cycle 5 miles to school every day.
NegativeCreep wrote: » Have an exam on Friday. My blood pressure will be through the roof going in with all the traffic! Let your kids take the bus people!
syklops wrote: » Now we need to kick off a debate on whats "walking distance"
anncoates wrote: » I myself had to make a 100 mile round trip to school on a bicycle with a rucksack of turf as well as carrying my corpulent older brother on the crossbar, which exacerbated my rickets and scurvy. In addition, my parents were too poor to afford fancy cycling shoes so they painted my feet orange and yellow and glued Velcro on my toes.
jimgoose wrote: » Luxury. My dad would tie one end of a rope to me and lasso the drawbar of a passing tractor with t'other. So I was dragged ta school every morning like something out of Blazing Saddles. This had no socio-economic basis, we were relatively wealthy. My dad was just a funny guy!
dxhound2005 wrote: » Never did you any harm, you turned out OK.
Kaiser2000 wrote: » I had to walk a good 40 minutes each way in all conditions when I was young (about 8/9 upwards), crossed several major roads AND I looked after my younger sister too as my mother worked nights/shifts The world didn't end, neither of us were kidnapped, we never starved etc. About the only thing it did do was give us a sense of independence, self-reliance and cop-on. Oh how I miss the 80s...
I've yet to see any MILFS when collecting my kids from school, most disappointing Seen plenty of PJ's though
Surveyor11 wrote: » I used to roller skate to school. Was I unusual?
chopper6 wrote: » When once back in 1982 or so there was a scare about a so-called bearded weirdo hanging round the area the Principal of the school announced that for safety reasons children weere always to walk home in groups larger than three...of course despite the delicious thrill of danger,none of these scares ever came to anything and none of us were abducted by peadophiles.
byronbay2 wrote: » There is absolutely nothing perverted about a man ogling MILFs at the school gates - it's the most natural thing in the world!
danniemcq wrote: » Whatever happened the school bus?
saltyjack silverblade wrote: » My parents managed to fashion some shoes for me out of some old tyres that were found shredded on the road. I then walked with my turf in my hand and my books in a strap, to a school where the fear of god was put into you. And we were grateful for it. Nowadays the yummy mummy's should drop their precious kids off when on the way back from the maternity unit and pick then up at 18 at the front door.
iguana wrote: » A tummy mummy is an affectionate term used for a gestational surrogate by the family of the child/ren she carried and gave birth to. Not sure why there are so many of them at your school OP?