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Jan 24, 2013 8:44 AM
WebFire;1373558 wrote:I do have to admit, I'm not a fan of parents taking their kids to school. Part of growing up and learning about life involved walking to or riding the bus to school. Seems like you are spoiling them by taking them.

Not a direct attack on GoChiefs, just my general opinion.
My parents would laugh in my face if I asked for a ride to school. Now, those who don't have a bus stop anywhere near them, sure. But even if I worked at the school, I would still make my kids walk to the bus stop and get on the bus like everybody else. Multiple benefits from that.
Jan 24, 2013 8:44am
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Jan 24, 2013 8:46 AM
SportsAndLady;1373557 wrote:Perhaps you should make him walk to a bus stop or something...you know, get some exercise..
bad.
Jan 24, 2013 8:46am
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Jan 24, 2013 8:47 AM
If it was below 10 my mom would drive me to the bus shed at the end of the driveway. That's probably the closest they ever got to driving me to school on a regular basis
Jan 24, 2013 8:47am
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Jan 24, 2013 8:51 AM
LJ;1373567 wrote:If it was below 10 my mom would drive me to the bus shed at the end of the driveway. That's probably the closest they ever got to driving me to school on a regular basis
Yeah, my mom would drive us to the bus stop if it was freezing and we'd sit in the car until the bus came.
Jan 24, 2013 8:51am
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Jan 24, 2013 8:52 AM
WebFire;1373558 wrote:I do have to admit, I'm not a fan of parents taking their kids to school. Part of growing up and learning about life involved walking to or riding the bus to school. Seems like you are spoiling them by taking them.

Not a direct attack on GoChiefs, just my general opinion.
We live 40 miles form my kids school. I wish I had a bus to put them on.
Jan 24, 2013 8:52am
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Jan 24, 2013 8:53 AM
Con_Alma;1373576 wrote:We live 40 miles form my kids school. I wish I had a bus to put them on.
You don't make them walk 40 miles both ways in the snow?
Jan 24, 2013 8:53am
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Jan 24, 2013 8:53 AM
Con_Alma;1373576 wrote:We live 40 miles form my kids school. I wish I had a bus to put them on.
Obviously there are exceptions.
Jan 24, 2013 8:53am
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Jan 24, 2013 9:01 AM
WebFire;1373580 wrote:Obviously there are exceptions.
Of course. I wasn't suggesting our circumstance was being addressed by the statements in this thread. I was stating we would love to have a bus stop fro them to walk to. It would be great.
Jan 24, 2013 9:01am
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Jan 24, 2013 9:04 AM
Con_Alma;1373591 wrote:Of course. I wasn't suggesting our circumstance was being addressed by the statements in this thread. I was stating we would love to have a bus stop fro them to walk to. It would be great.
Indeed.
Jan 24, 2013 9:04am
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Jan 24, 2013 9:05 AM
The minute a superintendent makes the call he or she is wrong in 50% of the publics eye! lol

My dad drove me to school from 7th grade on, but he was my high school teacher! I wanted to ride the bus, we would get to school nearly an hour early, I had to sit in the hallway outside of homeroom waiting for my teacher to show up!

As I type, I am waiting to put my kids on the bus and get to school myself. In 1987, august we actually missed the whole first week of school due to extreme heat, over 100 every day. No air conditioning then, but we still practiced football!
Jan 24, 2013 9:05am
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Jan 24, 2013 9:14 AM
Two hour delays for cold weather are lame. We didn't have that shit when I was a kid and I don't remember anyone ever freezing to death.
gorocks99;1373466 wrote:Move to Minnesota and fuck that noise. I walked to class in -50 wind chills in college not 10 years ago. No pussying out.
The entire time I was at OSU they only cancelled classes one time because of weather and I didn't find out until after I drove to school and walked to class only to find the door locked. That sucked.
Jan 24, 2013 9:14am
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Jan 24, 2013 9:51 AM
GoChiefs;1373477 wrote:Theres a little difference between 19 years old and 6 years old though.
Only a little difference.

Jan 24, 2013 9:51am
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Jan 24, 2013 10:36 AM
I think this is complete BS. They get delays when it is too cold, left our early when it gets too hot, etc etc etc.
Have many friends/family members who are teachers and we "discuss" it. When they let out early due to the heat I ask if the practices after schoool are cancelled then. If it is too hot to sit inside then it must be too hot to run outside and such.

As far as to when it gets cold the whole thing about bus stops and walking to school comes into play. I then ask....what do they do when it is pouring rain outside? What do parents do then? The answer usually is they have someone bring them to school.

So....if they feel it is too cold to walk or wait for the bus.....the parents can bring them to school.
Jan 24, 2013 10:36am
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Jan 24, 2013 10:41 AM
Rain is not dangerous like wind chills.
Jan 24, 2013 10:41am
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Jan 24, 2013 10:44 AM
WebFire;1373663 wrote:Rain is not dangerous like wind chills.
That is not the point. The point is that the argument is that the kids get frost bite in the cold if they walk. What happens when it rains? They take them to school, so why not do that if the parent deems it is too cold?
Jan 24, 2013 10:44am
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Jan 24, 2013 10:47 AM
Never heard of kids being let out early in Ohio for it being too hot.
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Jan 24, 2013 10:54 AM
thavoice;1373666 wrote:That is not the point. The point is that the argument is that the kids get frost bite in the cold if they walk. What happens when it rains? They take them to school, so why not do that if the parent deems it is too cold?
I got ya now. I don't know anyone that takes their kids to school when it rains, though I'm sure some do.
Jan 24, 2013 10:54am
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Jan 24, 2013 10:54 AM
Pick6;1373669 wrote:Never heard of kids being let out early in Ohio for it being too hot.
I haven't either, though we have AC at our school. Didn't when I was in school though.
Jan 24, 2013 10:54am
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Jan 24, 2013 10:56 AM
WebFire;1373674 wrote:I haven't either, though we have AC at our school. Didn't when I was in school though.
We never had AC, and I graduated 4 years ago
Jan 24, 2013 10:56am
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Jan 24, 2013 11:11 AM
Pick6;1373669 wrote:Never heard of kids being let out early in Ohio for it being too hot.

We did more than once. Our school was three stories and didn't have AC, though
Jan 24, 2013 11:11am
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Jan 24, 2013 11:13 AM
Pick6;1373675 wrote:We never had AC, and I graduated 4 years ago
We only do now because we had a new state-funded school built in 2004.
Jan 24, 2013 11:13am
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Jan 24, 2013 11:18 AM
I know some local schools in recent years have been getting off due to being too hot. Always thought it was funny it was too hot for class, but they still held CC practice and running like crazy, or a baseball game, or at the beginning of the school year they allowed football practice to go on, or even vollyeball in some very hot, stuffy and old gyms!

I remember as a kid it being so flippin cold some days that the floor of the bus was pretty much ice and ya could slide down the isle...and dont expect the heater to do much good on the bus with the drafty windows and door opening ever cople of minutes!
Jan 24, 2013 11:18am
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Jan 24, 2013 11:29 AM
SportsAndLady;1373557 wrote:Perhaps you should make him walk to a bus stop or something...you know, get some exercise..

A) The school is on my wifes way to work.
B) My son gets plenty of exercise.
C) Yes, I'm going to make my son walk 5 miles to the closest bus stop, considering he's enrolled in a different school district than we live in.
Jan 24, 2013 11:29am
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Jan 24, 2013 11:56 AM
I lol'd at this thread. What a joke the generation below me(and ironically, above me) is. I'm not saying my generation is perfect but Christ we seem to fit snuggly between the selfish boomers who have ruined this country with mountains of debt that they never intend to pay for and the selfish millennial who want everything handed to them in life.

I've heard Australia is nice; I might just move there.
Jan 24, 2013 11:56am
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Jan 24, 2013 11:57 AM
sleeper;1373718 wrote:I lol'd at this thread. What a joke the generation below me(and ironically, above me) is. I'm not saying my generation is perfect but Christ we seem to fit snuggly between the selfish boomers who have ruined this country with mountains of debt that they never intend to pay for and the selfish millennial who want everything handed to them in life.

I've heard Australia is nice; I might just move there.
Wait ... you're not a Millennial? You're older than I thought.
Jan 24, 2013 11:57am