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Comment on School absences: The school picking kids up from home to boost attendance

mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The family was rehoused in a flat two bus rides and at least 40 minutes from their primary school

I dont want to say twas different in my day but I regularly travelled an hour to school on several buses as did a number of my friends. Personally I can’t see this as a reason not to attend school 🤷. But then I don’t have kids so what do I know?

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Oneeightnine@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think you’d be hard pressed to find parents who are willing to load their primary aged children onto multiple busses to and from school nowadays. I know I wouldn’t feel comfortable with that.

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- mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s fair.
  
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Lazylazycat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was in primary school in the early 90s and there’s no way my parents would have put little 4 year old me on a bus on my own.

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jocanib@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In primary school?

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- mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yup 👍
  
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