Reply #51: Seems ridiculous

[mcar]

but as a mother, I wonder if there's more to the story. For years, my kids' bus stop was across a busy street, only 3 blocks from our house but I wouldn't let them cross that street on their own. When the oldest was in middle school, I let him but worried every day about him getting hit (there's a rise just before our corner and it's impossible to see cars coming up it; therefore if a car is going above the speed limit, it could easily hit a kid crossing the street). Every year I asked if the bus could pick us up at our corner, rather than across the street and I was told no.

So, every day I either walked my kids to the bus stop and waited or drove them into school. Suddenly early this school year, the bus began stopped both at our street, then turning the corner and immediately stopping at the "old" stop. I was totally confused. I asked the bus driver why and she said, because the new kid in the neighborhood gets off the bus and walks home by himself with no parent to pick him up so I have to stop here because he can't cross the street by himself - these are elementary aged kids.

So, all this time, all I needed to do was to stop being at the bus stop and they'd add our stop???? In the meantime, a high school kid on our dead end street who goes to the "bad kids" school gets picked up at his door every morning, while the elementary school kids have to walk to the "big road."

Go figure.