If you live like 4 hours from the nearest settlement then you’re fucked either way, school bus or not but those people are in the vast minority everywhere in the world. Walking distance is around 30 minutes on foot in my opinion. Busses work on gravel road, the road in front of my parents house was gravel until recently.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re not fucked if the school bus, which is required by law to go to you, goes to you. Which is how it is now.
And it was -20 F / -28 C here a few days ago. You expect a six-year-old to take a 30-minute walk in that weather? Really?
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If your kid needs 8 hours per day of commuting that should be some form of child abuse, school bus or no.
Here school is canceled for -20C for under 9th grade and -25C for higher in rural areas, that seems like a fair policy. Though I have walked to school at -25C in 3th grade I think and back because I didnt check the temperature, and that was walking about 40 minutes one way. It was fine, you just need proper clothing and if you live in these cold regions you know that.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sorry… it’s child abuse to live on a farm and have children?
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s child abuse to make your kid spend 8 hours of their day every work day on a bus. If you live in the ass end of nowhere find a better way to educate your kids, it’s the price you pay for living away from civilization, like if I choose to live on top of a mountain I won’t be expecting the postal service to climb 3 million steps to get to me.