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  • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    If your kid needs 8 hours per day of commuting that should be some form of child abuse, school bus or no.

    Here school is canceled for -20C for under 9th grade and -25C for higher in rural areas, that seems like a fair policy. Though I have walked to school at -25C in 3th grade I think and back because I didnt check the temperature, and that was walking about 40 minutes one way. It was fine, you just need proper clothing and if you live in these cold regions you know that.

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        10 months ago

        It’s child abuse to make your kid spend 8 hours of their day every work day on a bus. If you live in the ass end of nowhere find a better way to educate your kids, it’s the price you pay for living away from civilization, like if I choose to live on top of a mountain I won’t be expecting the postal service to climb 3 million steps to get to me.

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          10 months ago

          Okay, how many hours a day should a child spend on a bus before they need to be taken away from their parents? And does that time include the time it would take for a six-year-old to walk down a gravel road in arctic weather?

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              10 months ago

              That’s not a number of hours. You said four hours each way was child abuse. So how many hours does a child have to walk and ride a bus before it is child abuse?

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                10 months ago

                Not sure why you hold my opinion on that in such high regard as it doesn’t matter but I would say the commute by bus shouldn’t be over an hour one way and the walk to the bus station shouldn’t be longer than 30 minutes. That would be my ideal at least if I was making any rules.

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                  10 months ago

                  Got it. My wife was abused and should have been taken away from her mother. She had a 90-minute bus ride, but she didn’t have to walk through arctic temperatures because the bus was required by law to stop outside her house.

                  I’ll let her know that her mother was terribly abusive to her and cut off all contact with her granddaughter.

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                    10 months ago

                    Yea, you do that buddy.

                    Public transit would still be the superior choice to school busses.