I just mapped my home to school route and it is


.6 miles one way to grammar school #1

.6 one way to grammar school #2

.7 miles one way to grammar school #3

Jr high .3 miles

High school .7

Let's see:

Elementary school: K-5. Several miles. Bus ride.

Middle school: 6-8. Spanking new building in the exurban woods that drew kids from as far as 8 or 9 miles away. Definite bus ride. At the time ( mid 70s ) not many homes within walking distance of the school.

High School. A couple of stone's throws away. School day began at 06:45. I could leave the house when the first "get your asses to class" bell rang at 06:40 am if I wanted to.

Younger years - about a mile, crossing one busy road, with a crossing guard. Rode bike-there was no bus.

7th/8th grade - by then there was a newer school, much closer. Still a bike ride.

High school - Regional - bus, several miles. Walk to bus stop, about half a block.

Grade school 5 blocks
Jr High 2.3 miles, no bus, brutal winters
High School 1.5 miles, still no bus, same winters

Being able to attend a school located in your own neck of the woods (all of the above qualified) was just something we took for granted. Now with the way things are, it seems like to do so would be a privilege.

When they first started busing in my town, it was strictly a racial integration thing. And there was one neighborhood that was cut into 4 zones, with all 4 meeting at one intersection. A kid who grew up with friends on the other 3 corners could graduate highschool having never had his neighborhood friends as classmates.

Private Kindergarten: Got picked up by the woman who ran it in the next town carried some 8 kids in a station wagon. Think she took us home too.

Elementary 1-6: Walked about 1 mile home as we were dropped off in morning by father. Was always terrorized if I walked home alone.

Jr. High 7th only: Got dropped off a mile down road to bus stop another 2 miles to school.

Moved to another town: grades 8-12 first year in am we got a ride then walked home then got a bus near the house. About a mile and a half to jr. High and 2 miles to high school.

Forgot kindergarten above (I know everyone was wondering!) -- different town, suburban Philadelphia (Ambler): school bus at corner of Stuart Lane and Bethlehem Pike, a few houses away--school bus stop--with crying mother (I was told) watching on first day. Probably the same with the other mothers of baby boomer kids, of which there were plenty!

Kindergarten, don't even remember what school it was but it was a bus ride away.

Then we moved.

Elementary was walking distance, weirdly there was another elementary school that was even closer but I went to the farther one.

Junior High was almost across the street from my elementary school.

High School was almost the same distance.

First grade about 8 miles
Second to fourth grade 1/4th of a mile, I would walk to school when weather was nice.
Fifth to Eighth grade about 5 miles
High School was about 12 miles. We had several mean guys on that bus ride. They were always getting kicked off the bus for fighting, foul language, smoking and destruction of the bus seats.

Elementary - 1.2 & 1.7 Miles Walked
Middle School 1.9 Miles Bus
High School 2.5 Miles Bus


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