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Teenagers being driven to and from school

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VioletSky Sat 15-Jan-22 12:44:39

The bus pass is also very expensive if you don't attend the nearest school

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HettyBetty Sat 15-Jan-22 12:42:12

A friend of my DC lived just over a mile from school and was driven both ways for seven years. My own secondary was 2.5 miles and a lot of us walked as a group, collecting more along the way.

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Galaxy Sat 15-Jan-22 12:40:03

I think people do under estimate how many children at a particular school dont live locally. There are lots of moans about local children being driven to school in my village, people on Facebook constantly saying only a small minority of pupils will live out of the village, actually those living elsewhere are very much in the majority.

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dragonfly46 Sat 15-Jan-22 12:39:17

I find this culture of children being driven to school in the UK very strange.
My children went to school on their bikes in the Netherlands. I know that may not be safe over here but surely there are buses or they could walk like we did.

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Beswitched Sat 15-Jan-22 12:36:45

I got stuck in a terrible traffic jam near my home at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. At first I thought there might have been an accident but then realised it was pupils being collected from the local secondary school.

Obviously there will be some pupils who live some distance away, and not on a public transport route. But this school is quite difficult to get into if you're not in the catchment area, so the majority of the pupils would live locally.

Just wondering why so many kids aged 13 to 18 can't make their own way to and from school anymore?

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