There is apparently a phenomenon in the US now, where parents drive to the school individually to pick up and drop off their children at the beginning and end of the day. Some people I work with even take time off from working to do this. When the parents descend on the school each day there’s insane traffic, cars lined up for miles, all idling their engines. What happened to school buses?

  • branchial@feddit.de
    3·
    2 years ago

    The yellow school bus is like one of the most recognised US specific object. I thought they were standard issue in the US lol

    • Leer10@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 years ago

      I thought so too. I went to a rural high school with 700 people and I’d say at least half took the school busses

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Due to people’s habit of voting against funding school districts here, there isn’t enough funding for all children to be on the bus (ie paying enough drivers). So the busses are reserved for children who live farther. If you live within a certain radius of the school you can pay extra to put your children on the bus.

    • jonjennings@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 years ago

      Small and dense Canadian city here… not sure we even have school buses although I’ve seen them in other nearby school districts where I assume the catchment areas are wider.

      And yes, they’re the standard yellow school bus 🙂