On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:40:56 +0100, Halla
drunkenbastards.spam.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:57:58 +0100, Ben newsam
>
gmail.com> blethered:
>>>On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:57:17 +0100, Halla
>>
drunkenbastards.spam.com> wrote:
>>>>> There is, of course, complete
>>>uproar about this, even though the law says the council only have to
>>>provide free transport for those more than two miles away from school.
>>
>>Round here it's three miles, so nearly everyone has to pay for kids'
>>bus fares.
>
>Yeah, rather late in the day the Outraged Parents have mentioned that
>actually they'd be willing to pay for the fares, but for a while there
>it was purely 'Waaaaah! Give me back the free thing!'
>
>I confess a certain amount of schadenfreude here, of course, given
>that the two schools along the road here don't get busses at all.
I used to go to primary school on a bus. My parents gave me three
ha'pence each way for the journey every day, and if I walked I could
keep the money (except I didn't tell them that).
I walked to secondary school at first - it was possible to get a bus,
but the walking distance from home to a bus stop and from a bus stop
to the school made it hardly worthwhile, and I got no subsidy from my
parents.
I was given a bicycle for my sixteenth birthday, which gave me a
remarkable degree of freedom. I was able to go home at lunchtime,
rather than be subject to School Dinners (although I had to make my
own lunch when I got home), and the 12 miles a day cycling was good
exercise.
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