SportsAndLady
Posts: 35,632
Jan 24, 2013 8:44am
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.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.
hasbeen
Posts: 6,504
Jan 24, 2013 8:46am
bad.SportsAndLady;1373557 wrote:Perhaps you should make him walk to a bus stop or something...you know, get some exercise..
LJ
Posts: 16,351
Jan 24, 2013 8:47am
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
SportsAndLady
Posts: 35,632
Jan 24, 2013 8:51am
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.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
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Con_Alma
Posts: 12,198
Jan 24, 2013 8:52am
We live 40 miles form my kids school. I wish I had a bus to put them on.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.
SportsAndLady
Posts: 35,632
Jan 24, 2013 8:53am
You don't make them walk 40 miles both ways in the snow?Con_Alma;1373576 wrote:We live 40 miles form my kids school. I wish I had a bus to put them on.
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WebFire
Posts: 14,779
Jan 24, 2013 8:53am
Obviously there are exceptions.Con_Alma;1373576 wrote:We live 40 miles form my kids school. I wish I had a bus to put them on.
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Con_Alma
Posts: 12,198
Jan 24, 2013 9:01am
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.WebFire;1373580 wrote:Obviously there are exceptions.
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WebFire
Posts: 14,779
Jan 24, 2013 9:04am
Indeed.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.
redstreak one
Posts: 1,152
Jan 24, 2013 9:05am
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!
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!
FatHobbit
Posts: 8,651
Jan 24, 2013 9:14am
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.
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.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.
gorocks99
Posts: 10,760
Jan 24, 2013 9:51am
Only a little difference.GoChiefs;1373477 wrote:Theres a little difference between 19 years old and 6 years old though.
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thavoice
Posts: 14,376
Jan 24, 2013 10:36am
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.
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.
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WebFire
Posts: 14,779
Jan 24, 2013 10:41am
Rain is not dangerous like wind chills.
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thavoice
Posts: 14,376
Jan 24, 2013 10:44am
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?WebFire;1373663 wrote:Rain is not dangerous like wind chills.
Pick6
Posts: 14,946
Jan 24, 2013 10:47am
Never heard of kids being let out early in Ohio for it being too hot.
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WebFire
Posts: 14,779
Jan 24, 2013 10:54am
I got ya now. I don't know anyone that takes their kids to school when it rains, though I'm sure some do.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?
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WebFire
Posts: 14,779
Jan 24, 2013 10:54am
I haven't either, though we have AC at our school. Didn't when I was in school though.Pick6;1373669 wrote:Never heard of kids being let out early in Ohio for it being too hot.
Pick6
Posts: 14,946
Jan 24, 2013 10:56am
We never had AC, and I graduated 4 years agoWebFire;1373674 wrote:I haven't either, though we have AC at our school. Didn't when I was in school though.
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MontyBrunswick
Jan 24, 2013 11:11am
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
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WebFire
Posts: 14,779
Jan 24, 2013 11:13am
We only do now because we had a new state-funded school built in 2004.Pick6;1373675 wrote:We never had AC, and I graduated 4 years ago
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thavoice
Posts: 14,376
Jan 24, 2013 11:18am
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!
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!
GoChiefs
Posts: 16,754
Jan 24, 2013 11:29am
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.
sleeper
Posts: 27,879
Jan 24, 2013 11:56am
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.
I've heard Australia is nice; I might just move there.
gorocks99
Posts: 10,760
Jan 24, 2013 11:57am
Wait ... you're not a Millennial? You're older than I thought.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.