I like this solution. Lots of postives come from it: kid gets a little extra exercise and learns how to interact with older kids, parents don't have to spend ~10 hours per week waiting in a ****ing line, and a neighborhood kid gets some comic book money. Everybody's happy.

Maybe it's different where people grew up. I grew up in the city kindergarten I was picked up and drop off for a week then after that I walked the 3-4 blocks to my grandparents house. Then in 1st grade my parents took me the first week then I walked the 6-7 blocks home everyday for about 5 yrs in middle school I took the cheese bus in high school I took public transportation and by 16 I was driving myself to school.

But I agree in today's age cuz of all the sickos cps probably take me away and charge my parents with negligence. Although when I was 10 walking home a Hispanic man did follow me for a couple blocks before I ran into my older senior neighbors who were out for a walk.

OP, this is completely standard where I am. As are numerous other mindless things that school administrators are too dense to figure out. I predict this will be the first of many frustrations for you.

However, you will figure it out and adapt. The simplest thing to check out first is whether your kid can be bussed. And, if so, whether you and your spouse are willing to allow him to be. Many of those parents in that queue are not.

Another suggestion is to find out who your kid's friends at school are and if any live near you. With any luck, he may be able to ride with one whose parent is willing to sit in that maddening line.

Good luck.

I don't know why people are bitching about the people that live around there. I'd be pretty pissed if I had to drive through there and people were blocking the lanes (like parking in front of the no parking sign on the right) or were regularly blocking my driveway.

I'm still kind of baffled by this whole thing and how there are so many people that can't come up with an alternative other than sitting in this line for almost an hour.

pffffft. First off, there is zero chance any 6th grade boy is responsible enough to walk home a kindergartner everyday, so its going to be a girl. So he probably just develops a thing for older women or for 6th grade girls. So he either ends up as some gross orderly in a nursing home, or has a hard drive full of child porn. The girl isnt spending her money on comic books, shes responsible, so probably puts it in a savings account to use for college. She starts to dream big at a young age constantly watching that account grow. Ends up biting off more than she can chew and ends up with a mountain of student debt that crushes her adult life. Has to take a 2nd job in the evenings, starts popping pills to stay awake, and then its not long before shes begging on freeway off ramps and giving hand jobs in the park so she can get her next fix. This plan ruins multiple lives!!

There are some neighborhood streets near me that are posted that you cant turn down them from like 7-9am (I forget exactly), I always wondered why. I wonder now if its because its near a school and so there is a line of cars going the opposite way, or its too keep people from driving in there to drop kids off? I'd be pissed if I lived in that area. Altho I guess it would be my fauly for buying a house near a school.

all I know is there is zero chance id ever sit in a line for 45 minutes to drop my kid off, He/she is either getting bussed or dropped off somewhere down the way and walking the rest. I think less of any parent who sits in that line twice a day 5 days a week. Let alone the ones who get there early and set up chairs, I guarantee I would hate every single one of those parents.

OP,

Great follow up pic but what are you hiding from us with that white box!?!!!??!!?

obviously avoiding a trainwreck

Im going to find this school anyway and alert the administrators to this thread!

Just buy an industrial-sized catapult (or is it trebuchet?), plant it in your backyard, put a parachute on the kid, and play with your trajectories a bit.

The do-nothing soccer moms showing up an hour+ early to set up shop and start that cloggin are the true ****s of this thread.

If nothing else, this thread is great information for potential homeowners with children. It would be great to check out the school and busing procedures around the school.

I never would have thought of this. We have had the same grade school bus driver for 12 years. She's the best. Kids give her gift cards for the local convenience store where she stops every morning for coffee. She keeps us all informed about behaviour on the bus.

Sounds like we are really lucky.

WTF. Why would you put up with this goddamn mess and lose 1.5 hrs per day without even inquiring about busing? We must be missing something here.

I like it.

Also, someone mentioned that their school district doesn't provide busing. Is sending children to school mandatory by law there? If so, how the **** can the government justify saying, "You have to send your kids to school but good luck getting them there!"?

OP,

Love the follow up with pics and everything, great stuff.

Elite solution that costs you nearly nothing.

I'm scouting this when I have kids and send them to school. This is a complete joke. I took the bus until I was about 8 or so and then started walking to and from school every day, but I would occasionally get dropped off down the street and would walk the rest of the way. Going up meant a pretty long wait.

That's insane how long that line is and people have started camping out in lawn chairs. That's hilarious. When your kid gets old enough should start selling overpriced food and drink down the line like they do on the long lines at Six Flags and stuff. Could probably clear $100+ a day in profit.

I live near a school that goes from grades K-8. There are maybe 8 buses. There is no drop-off loop, and on the street the school is on, you can only park for 10-minutes during school hours. Some parents just drop off their kids; parents with younger kids park and walk their kids to school. I get a car in front of my house for 5 minutes in the morning and 10-15 minutes in the afternoon.

This is how parking looks in the mornings/afternoons:



Once when I was mowing my lawn, there was a car parked that prevented me from getting the part right next to the street. That's the biggest inconvenience I've had. I find OP's situation very perplexing.

lol how does that school not have its own parking lot? terrible...

when i was a kid I either walked home which took like 15-20 or I got picked up, the parents just waited in the parking lot.... there was no "line" except the buses lined up waiting for school to end.

a bunch of do-nothing bitches right

Boil, where do you live that schools have parking lots where people other than teachers and staff can park? I've never seen this in my life, except in high schools where there are student lots.

Yeah my school had a massive and mostly empty car lot for grade 1-8 students, i lived in Aurora ontario. Fairly good sized town like 60kish people. It was quite affluent

It's almost like they knew before they built it that that buses wouldn't do all the work as it was a quite a big school, lots of residential area around it. Also they knew the primary transport that parents would use, would be some sort of personal moving device that would transfer kids to and from the location and would require a docking area, without denying people access to the roads from congestion.

My K-8 school had almost the same setup as your picture. Pick ups and drop offs happened all along the blue line and never took more than a couple minutes. Only the buses were allowed to turn into the school parking lot and drop off along the red loop. My guess is that these days kids aren't allowed to leave that red zone after school without a parent/guardian.

Waiting 1.5 hours before and after school is madness. Even the stay at home soccer moms I knew growing up didn't have time for that.

school got out at 2 and the car situation didn't clear up until 2:45 everyday. that's when my mom would come pick us up, seemed normal and practical to me at the time and I just built an extra 45 min into my day where I'd hang out with my friends or do something.

I'm picturing a hundred drones flying to the school, little kids dangling below them...I like this idea.

My principal friend says that kids that live within 1.5 miles have to walk and kids living outside of that radius will have bus transportation. At least that's for her school.

The exception is that there has to be a safe way to get to the school (a walking path/sidewalk and crossing guards at intersections). Did you mention that there was not a sidewalk? If so, I would talk to the principal to get clarification.

My expectation is that idiot parents will clog my street every goddamn day, twice per day, picking up their worthless **** stains.

Get stronger drones and dronepool.

OP,

Is there a street parallel to ithe street on the right of the picture that connects over? I'd park over there and walk my kid over to school. If it's a no-park zone, I'd go with Mrs. T and have one of us stay in the car -- that way, you're "standing" rather than "parking" and can walk your kid to school in five minutes. Downside is you need two adults in the car.

What city do you live in? This is absurd.

seeing how schools can't stop a parent from picking their kids up early, OP should probably start walking in 30 mins early every day and asking/telling someone in the office to go get his kid, he's taking him home early.

"I'm going to pick him up during last period every single day until you figure out a way that doesn't cost me an hour and a half every day if I wait until after school to get him".

kinda surprised people haven't started doing this honestly. lining up early is fine, but you're still sitting there. shocked there haven't started to be parents that walk in and say "gimme my kid".