Are ya ready kids?!
Took me a while to unwrap that. Crabs is your dad complaining that you played Nintendo all night and overslept, so he has to drive you to school after you missed the bus? Did I get that right?
Context for any other Euro readers: If you miss the bus to school in the US, there won't be another one coming 10 minutes later.
To be fair, even in Europe as soon as you’re out of the “city”, buses start coming fewer and fewer times during the day. Where I live, I used to get 2 buses in the morning, one one hour after the first.
And for school pickup it's just one in the morning and the one bringing you back in the evening where I live
There are school busses in Europe?
Well,in France not really, in the sense that it is busses from private companies, hired by the county
More to the point, in North America, a school bus is very different from a city bus. It's yellow and has the single purpose of stopping only at each student's house and the school, after which it goes and parks somewhere* until it's time to drive everyone home at the end of the day.
It doesn't come back for you and there isn't another one coming until tomorrow.
*or switches to the next age range )which is usually staggered and in different buildings) or comes back to drive kids to field trips during the day
Also: he had a playstation not a Nintendo
Yeah that was a riddle to solve. Also if you miss the buss in the us i think the next one comes like an hour later not 10 minutes.
School Busses in particular are not recurring. You get one in the morning to school and one in the afternoon back home.
If you miss either one, you had to call your parents to come pick you up. Or find a different way such as with a friend, walking or taking the regular bus.
To add, if you miss the school bus in the morning you cant just walk over to another bus stop and take a different school bus, at least in the district i grew up. You're assigned a specific bus to ride before and after school and taking a different bus could mean detention to a full ban from riding the bus because it's "a privledge, not a right" according to the district.
I ran into issues every school year because my parents were separated with shared, joint, custody, but my school district couldnt grasp the idea of me living in two homes, in two completely different parts of the city, and needing two completely different bus routes. They kept insisting I could only have 1 home address, but I literally swapped homes every Friday so I lived in each 50% of the year.
Thats pretty fucked up. School busses 100% show how there are many layers of society who cant take private transport but we decide to ignore everyone except school kids.
What if you do some kind of after school program? I usually go swimming and to gym after school(tho i could drive but its easier and environmentally friendlier to take public transport). How would you do that in the us? Or do you just go home after school and do nothing? That would explain why gangs exist, all those young people who cant do anything with their energy.
I went to a particularly well off school, lots of alumni donations. They ponied up the money to get a bus to come an hour and a half after school ended to pick up the majority of after school programs that ended at that time. The driver would ask what area you lived in and create a route to drive to each areas stop.
For the programs that ran later, you had to find your own way. And if you weren't in an after school program, you couldn't take that bus. Which meant, if you missed the normal bus you were still screwed
The school bus only runs its route twice; once in the morning to school and once on the way back immediately after school. If you miss it, then you're on you're own.
I did after school programs in high school and I had to find my own way home. I remember frequently waiting in front of the school for nearly 2 hours after a short club meeting to be picked up by my mom because I lived 6 miles away and she worked the classic 9-5.
Edit: My home city doesnt have public transportation, so no city bus.
Fun fact: at my school if you come in even 1 minute late to class you get lunch detention even if your parent signs off on it being their fault
However, if you skip the WHOLE DAY you can use a parent note and have no issue whatsoever.
I've missed like 3 days of school in my 3.5 years in HS so far because of it. I was late by 15m in freshman year and went to lunch detention (alarm was set for PM and not AM, still upset about that) and thought "yeah I ain't doing this again" and will now miss the entire day instead.
at my school if you lose your pen or workbook you get sanctioned, if you lose your whole bag they are sympathetic
Eh, back in my day parents were already gone for work by the time you left for the bus. If you missed the bus then you were walking your ass, or riding your bike several miles to school. You didn't even think about not going, or you'd get a paddling and a grounding.
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