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[spiderw]

I lived in the city where all grammar schools were within districts. All  students could walk to school, my school was about three blocks away.  At high school, we had to take a bus until my girlfriend had a car and drove to high school.  At that time there were very few students who had cars and of course we had to be 17 yrs. old to have a license.

[lovesrecess]

My brother and I walked to school about a mile each way. If it was raining, Mom would drive us but we had to go extra early so she could get to work on time. We had to wait what seemed like forever after school for her to come pick us up in the rain. There were no school buses when I was in elementary school. All neighborhood schools, so you could walk the less than 3 mile limit. When they started developing more of our area, they added buses when I was in jr high. Mom drove us then since we were about 6 miles from that school.

[jannabelle1]

Elementary and junior high (as it was called back then) was only 5 blocks from home (in a small town), so I always walked. We had moved to a larger city when I was in high school, so I rode with my neighbors, or my dad took me. I rode home with friends or the neighbors after school.

[Carmie]

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@lulu1 wrote:

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@ECBG wrote:

We lived at the bottom of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

My dad took me to the bus.  I attended the Catholic Procital School my mother had.  The school was a big Victorian building with a giant

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@ECBG

I've only been educated in Catholic schools.  I've never heard of a Procital school. Would you enlighten me, please?

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You know she meant parochial school, so why ask?

[stellabystarlight]

I walked to my catholic elementary school, which was about 5 blocks away, and even came home for lunch each day as my mother was a housewife.