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[Silver Lining]

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@LindaSal wrote:

We always walked to and from school.  If the weather was bad my mom would give us a ride and would include as many neighborhood kids as we could fit!   It was a good mile for us too.......uphill......both ways......with no shoes.  (Sorry I couldn't help it, LOL)

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@LindaSal wrote:

We always walked to and from school.  If the weather was bad my mom would give us a ride and would include as many neighborhood kids as we could fit!   It was a good mile for us too.......uphill......both ways......with no shoes.  (Sorry I couldn't help it, LOL)

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@LindaSal 

We must be related. I say that word for word all the time, especially when someone crabs about walking or riding a bus to school. People laugh when I say we walked to school, in the snow, uphill both ways, and no shoes. Actually, there's a little bit of truth to it. My father was military and never there. My mother didn't know how to drive. We lived in Alaska.

[Spurt]

Our Elementary School was located at the end of our street---just a block away---we had fun playing at the playground on weekends aand in the summer too...

[tobes]

@qualitygal Never took a school bus through kindergarten, grammar or high school.

[candyagain]

Military family. Some schools I could walk to, some schools we needed a bus. My sophomore year of high school I had a 90 minute ride to and from the school. Everyone did their homework on the bus and we became a little family. VERY long day!

[Sushismom]

Being an Army brat, I went to several different elementary schools.

First grade, walked. Second and third grades, was bussed. Fourth grade, was bussed. Fifth grade, walked. Sixth was bussed. 

[ScarletDove]

In elementary school (late '40's/50's) always walked and it was about a mile; bad weather, we walked. During junior high, took the bus; high school walked, then drove in senior year, graduated '60.  Parents never took me to school.

[wilma]

Walked every day through 8th grade. No exceptions. 
Took a city bus to high school & college. 

Always envied friends who had parents drive them everywhere when they were young, and then friends who had their own cars in high school & college. I didn't get my own car until I was working full time as a teacher at the age of 23! 

[RedTop]

My brothers and I rode a school bus every single day.  Left home at 7:40, got home at 4:15.  

Our bus route was one of the longest and most difficult in our school district.  We missed school, or often got out of school early, when water was high and flooding the bridge, or snow was deep.  We had the same bus driver my 12 years of school; Mr E lived in our "neighborhood" on top of the mountain in front of me.  We could see his big white farmhouse and where he parked the school bus, and knew when he started the morning run. 

Mr E was a good bus driver and very easy going, but every now and then he'd have to stop the bus, stand up and say a few words, or walk back to signal for a certain troublemaker to come to the front seat of the bus.   

A new family with 7 kids moved into the neighborhood near Mr E around 1971; 6 of them were riding the bus my senior year and they were all mean as snakes, and always in trouble.   They would push us, or try to trip us when we got off the bus.  

I was getting off the bus one afternoon of my senior year, and the youngest boy of the troublemaker family was on the front seat right side, near the door.  As I came up the aisle, he was looking at me and smiling that sneaky grin, and when I got beside him, he slid his grubby little hand under my dress and touched my upper thigh!  Big mistake!  I stopped, turned, and slapped that little boy hard enough to move him across the seat towards the window.  I looked at Mr E before I stepped off the bus, and he was looking straight ahead, as if he didn't see anything.   

[JYWilliams]

Walked. I had a school right down the street from my house but since I lived on the opposite side of the street it wasn't in that school district. So we had to walk about 10 blocks.

[rms1954]

School bus.  Except for the days when my mother literally kicked me out the back door and down the stairs cuz I missed the bus, then I walked (sobbing and crying)