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Originally Posted by psicodude
No, transit buses are only used in high school. It would be a regular bus. 4 or 5 years old seems awfully young to be alone on a bus.
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When I was 5 I waited at the bus stop by myself everyday for a school bus and this continued until I got a car. This was before bus drivers were supposed to know what stops kids got on and off at and before cell phones. It was also only blocks away from where a child killer abducted kids.
We have far too much fear these days. Every kids parents wait at the bus stop with them until the bus gets there and wait when the bus drops them off. Its kind of ridiculous. In terms of statistics its probably more dangerous to have to walk accross a busy street like elbow drive to get to school than to take a school bus. Parents driving is probably more dangerous than a school bus. Also many people by choice send their four and fiver year olds on buses to get to private and charter schools.
I don't think fear of school buses is a good reason to oppose bussing. There are lots of negatives about it but the save the children argument doesn't fly with me.