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Poll: Would you let your preschooler ride a bus to school?
My daughter is going to our school district preschool which offers a bus to come and pick them up and take them home. When we found this out we said no thanks right away and we take and drop her off everyday. But she is the only kid in her class that doesn't ride the bus. In other classes other parents take there own kids just not in her class. Now that winter is coming I'm thinking about changing my mind and letting her ride the bus. One because it's getting so cold and I hate having to drag her brother out and about in the freezing cold. The second one is the fact that it would save on gas even though it's only 5 mins away.
At first I really thought she was way to young to ride a bus but now I'm thinking well maybe it's not a big deal after all. So what would you do? Oh and maybe I should add that we have had many time's of her crying because she was upset she can't ride the bus with her friends. [Poll]
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Re: Poll: Would you let your preschooler ride a bus to school?
My son started preschool a couple of weeks ago when he turned three. It's also the school district and they provide bus service. We chose the bus because DS2 usually naps during preschool. The bus has a helper along with the driver.
The first two weeks were rough, but every day got better. He of course cried a ton the first day and I felt horrible. The driver called me later to say that he calmed down by the end of the block and was asleep before they left the subdivision. The next day he calmed down by the time he couldn't see our house. By the third week, he was talking about getting the bus a hour before he had to go. And yesterday he bounded onto the bus without looking back.
I would recommend it.
My son rides the bus, he is in 3yo preschool. He LOVES the bus. We allowed it because we use it as a reward for good behavior in school.
I'm not sure if this is typical of all school districts but in our case, there are ONLY preschoolers on the bus because they have a different start and end time than the other kids. They are harnessed into their seats with a 5 point harness. The bus is smaller because they are not about to send out a large bus to load up 60 3 year olds. The bus run is limited to 12 kids or 45 minutes. That means that if the kids are so spread out that they can only get to 6 houses in 45 minutes, then the run is only scheduled for 6 kids and another bus run is added for the overflow. This is important to me because the school district line runs through our back yard, meaning we are the further east house away from the school. I was afraid DS would have to spend hours on the bus every day. Luckily is usually less then 30 minutes each I way. I think there are 9 houses on his run.
the bus driver has no aide but she is fantastic. She decorates her bus with school themes and sings songs with the kids. I thnk DS learns as much on the bus as he does in school. It's been a really good experience for us, so far.
Charlotte Ella 07.16.10
Emmeline Grace 03.27.13
We chose not to have DS take the bus to school. It's a 2 minute drive to school, but I still prefer to drop him off and pick him up. He also doesn't want to ride the bus. I'm kind of an anxious person and there's too many things for me to be worried about. I'm crazy, I now, but I'm just not comfortable with it at this point.
My son started junior kindergarten last year when he was 4y3m old. He rides the yellow school bus with every other kid in the neighbourhood (kids range in age from 4 years to 18 years).
I would not have a problem with it at all.
Ditto!