back! back! back to school!

[keryx]

This morning was the first time this week I left for work just at the right time to catch all the high schoolers walking and waiting for the bus.

Many of them are still at that "first day of school" stage, in that they leave home only after selecting an outfit and drying their hair (except for the gothkids with their Victorian sense of preparation, they get wetter looking and gradually appear to be wearing their pjs as the year goes on).

I never, ever want to go back to school. School sucks. High schoolers, I honor you. Anyone who tells you these are the best days of your life is lying, believe me.

Does anyone have any idea how school bus stops get planned? It seems very odd to me that there are 5 stops within 5 blocks near my house, but none in the mile immediately surrounding the school. The sense is not being made for me here.

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[lil-ms-drama.livejournal.com]

At my HS, it was the same thing regarding the buses. I lived within a mile of the school so I either had to walk or find a ride - only the Seniors were allowed to park on school grounds.

It wasn't so bad for me directly as I lived about 2 blocks away, but for my friends that lived at the edge of that mile it was really stupid. No public buses came down that way either.

[examorata.livejournal.com]

I'm sure kids who live within a certain radius of the HS have to hoof it, and not ride a bus.

When I was a freshman, I lived like two blocks from the edge of the radius, and probably *could* have walked back a bit to get the bus. Frankly, however, I hated the idea of taking the bus and vastly preferred walking every day, since that's what I'd done every other day of school for the preceding nine years. Then over the winter break of freshman year we moved to the other side of town, so I did start taking the bus. Unhappily.

I never, ever want to go back to school. School sucks. High schoolers, I honor you. Anyone who tells you these are the best days of your life is lying, believe me.

Amen!

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone ever died having to walk 20 blocks to school. But I still don't get why there isn't like, ONE bus stop in my neighborhood. It was the same when I was in high school - if you're in range of the bus, the most you have to walk is 5 blocks - so why doesn't the same standard apply to the bus range in the first place? Eh, it probably makes sense on some level.

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

Now I'm singing Grease II songs!!!

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I'll be your girl for all seasons
All the year through
Your girl for all seasons...

tee hee.