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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 ๐Ÿคท. But then I don't have kids so what do I know?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] Lazylazycat 2 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] jocanib 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago