To Bus or Not To Bus
The schools my kids attend are the same ones I went to as a kid. Besides the addition of a new pool and a new middle school, they haven't changed much. Except in the morning when the road and parking entrance are clogged with parents dropping their kids off. When I was there, being dropped off by your parents was the ultimate wussy-indicator, if you didn't ride the bus something was wrong with you. I know this isn't the case anymore, but I have still always favored the bus.
Now, as I am about to toss my 5er into the reality of Kindergarten, I am freaked out! How can I put my little dough-boy on the bus with a bunch of kids he doesn't know? How will he know where to go? What if he forgets to get off at his stop? I know it will all be fine, that he might have to jump a hurlde to win the race, but still, there's something scary about putting him on a big yellow beast and watching him pull away out of my control. I'm curious, do you bus or drop off and why did you choose?
I just had my first day of kindergarten and the whole experience freaked me out. I just wrote a post about the whole bus experience.
He didn't ride the bus today and is to ride a daycare bus each day. If I was not their to pick him up from his first day they would have put him on the bus back to my house. This was a very stressful experience and I am praying tomorrow everything goes well as he will be riding the daycare bus. Lets just hope he ends up on the right bus. If you want to see my who story: http://juggling-mama.blogspot.com/2008/08/sniff-sn...
Put him on the bus! Isn't it sort of a childhood milestone? Even Forrest Gump's mama put him on the bus. He'll be fine, and if it turns out that cool kids get dropped off by their parents, you'll have years of dropping him off in front of you.
I've just heard from one of my friends that the only bullying her kids have encountered was on the bus. I had always assumed that the bus driver did a little bit of policing ... have you found that to be true or not?
I was always bussed as a kid and I have bullied on bus as well as been attacked. The bus drivers can instill fear if they have a forceful personality but they can't actually keep watch over what's going on.
Even tho my guy's still too young, I hear a LOT of stories about the bus. I have an aunt in the school system that won't put her own kids on the bus (exept for field trips, obviously) just because of bullying.
In our neighborhood, the kindergartners have their own bus, which is nice.
This probably won't be an issue for some time, yet, but the jr/sr high bus picks up right in front of my house. Those kids are terrible to each other! One boy with glasses and a trombone case was hassled so bad every day I thought, someday it won't be a trombone in that case. I tried to nonchalantly be outside, but I couldn't do it everyday.
For myself, I only rode the bus for 1 year, and it was my least favorite time of day. Somebody was always trying to hassle somebody else. The driver didn't seem to notice or care. Unfortunately, none of my friends rode the same bus as me, which made for a long ride, and some taunting. But the ones who had friends on the bus had a blast... and hardly got hassled because they were in their own little world.
So maybe the buddy system is the key?
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