Glastonbury to make students walk to school [Connecticut]

WFSB-TV, Hartford ^ | May 10, 2005 | WFSB

[LurkedLongEnough]

GLASTONBURY -- Starting next year, some students who take the bus to school in Glastonbury will have to walk instead.

The board of education passed a new bus policy Monday night which eliminates bus service for students living within a half mile of the elementary school, within one mile of the middle school and one-and-a-half miles from the high school.

Once again, the changes will take effect next year.

[pikachu]

I had to walk five miles, uphill both ways, in the snow to school each day which was very hard to do in Southern California!

[bikepacker67]

Ohh the HORROR!

[Little_shoe]

Ah walking to class, especially in the rain builds moral character. I did it for Four years in college and it didnt kill me. Heck that along with my own personal stairmaster (5 flights over 10 times a day) kept me in wonderful shape...

[BluH2o]

I had to walk five miles, uphill both ways, in the snow to school each day ...

Me too ... except I was barefoot.

[Necrovore]

They got bus service within a half mile? Wow how nice to live in such a privileged area. Down here where I live in Texas the students have to live at least three miles away from the school they are attending to ride the bus.

[Waterleak]

Yeah but did you have 73 pedophiles following you to? The walk to school these days is much more difficult than anything in the past. If they aren't offered drugs, then the molestors try to invite them in, or strangers with candy. Or caught in the crossfire, run over by someone running from the police etc, etc, etc.

[Larry Lucido]

Hell, we had to make our own snow!

[Sacajaweau]

Uphill...both ways?? Okay!

[Larry Lucido]

Uphill...both ways?? Okay!

Well, California does have a lot of earthquakes. It's possible.

[Sacajaweau]

All they have to do in a lot of cases is put sidewalks on one side of the roads so kids aren't walking in the street. Hell of a lot cheaper than the cost of a bus, upkeep, a driver and gas.

[Valin]

I'm gonna take a WAG and say the school district wants to raise taxes.

[lizma]

Wow how nice to live in such a privileged area.

My kid's school is across the street and the school board here (Montgomery Kounty, MD) thinks my kid should take the bus! (Her bus stop is about 3 blocks away.) Common sense is in a shorter supply than money out here.

[AppyPappy]

I'm gonna take a WAG and say the school district wants to raise taxes

Ahhh...the Force is strong in this poster.

[Fresh Wind]

The way some of the school bus drivers drive, the kids are probably safer walking.

[AppyPappy]

When I was in 8th grade, one of my classmates would stand at the bus stop looking a Junior high school across the street. The bus would pick him up and take him to another junior high school. Ah, the joys of busing.

[Sacajaweau]

Our local absurdity is the bus stops at every house...100 feet apart. Absolutely insane and holds up traffic in both directions. It takes me a half an hour to go 2 miles if I get trapped behind a school bus.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The walk to school these days is much more difficult than anything in the past. If they aren't offered drugs, then the molestors try to invite them in...

They will have a PFLAG escort program instead......

[N. Theknow]

Obiously due to Draconian budget cuts forced on the over worked, under paid, unappreciated school superintendent and his staff and the school board by an uninformed, ungrateful, ignorant townspeople not voting for more taxes to "support their schools" and "sacrificing for the children" and "paying their fair share."

BUT! Now these kids will have something to tell their grandchildren about walking to school, in chest deep snow drifts, uphill both ways.

[foolscap]

Our local absurdity is the bus stops at every house...100 feet apart. Absolutely insane and holds up traffic in both directions.We have the exact same thing. It is so frustrating! I leave for work 45 minutes earlier than I would just to avoid the school buses. I don't see why they can't consolidate their bus stops. You are right they literally stop about every 100 feet.