Walking to school

[Redfrog]

When I was a kid I had to walk to school. Anyone else?


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[Jim Blake]

Originally Posted by Redfrog

When I was a kid I had to walk to school. Anyone else?


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I did. Really!! But it wasn't as uphill both ways as that!!

[JD848]

Yes I use to walk to school,but I would have crapped my pants if that was the main trail.

The guy at the end carrying that heavy load almost made me split a gut,tough buggers all the way around.

[nimrod]

Or strait up or down, crazy

[Parker Hale]

Every day from kindergarten to graduation. But nothing like that. Would need to carry spare underwear.

[kodiakken]

Do a little footie putting or ride ye olde pedal bike!

[260 Rem]

Never had to walk to school, but it was a mile walk across the section to catch the bus until Grade 4....although most of the time we rode a horse (in good weather) or in a cutter (cold winter days). After horses were put away at the neighbors, another 100yd walk and wait for the bus.
Starting Grade 4 a bus route was established 1/2 mile from the house on a county road so no more horses. Bike or walked to a bale hut on the side of the road to wait for the bus.
Farm/acreage kids don’t walk much anymore, it’s the town kids in larger towns with no bus service that have the long walks these days.

[artie]

We walked to school probably a mile. We had to go home for lunch as no one was allowed to stay at the school during lunch hour. It never hurt us just when you were in about grade 10 you were to proud to wear a hat or toque and froze your ears.

[huntinstuff]

The number one rule in Real Estate

Location Location Location



Close to Schools

Yeah as the crow flies.......nowhere on the ad did it say I had to climb the face of Everest in order to get Cheeze Whiz

Bet no one EVER forgot to bring milk home....

Imagine working there for “Skip the Dishes”?

[Bushrat]

Walked to school from grade 1-6, wasn't that far, in JR high went to a different school, instead of taking the bus the long way around I used a canoe in the summer to cross the river about half a mile, in the winter we walked across the river, skated, or some had snowmobiles. We only took the bus when the ice was freezing up in the fall or breaking up in the spring. I remember getting a rabbit one day after school on the trail down to the river, a dart right behind the eye. We played darts lunchtime at school. Probably not allowed to have darts in school nowadays.

[HalfBreed]

Yep, not extreme though. In Duncan it was good, had a bus in Metchosin but I chose to ride my bike but was ridiculed for doing so. I'm curious how fat those jokers are today? In Langford I walked as well. Only really had rain as an obstacle though, so just had to go through it.

[DisplacedCaper]

Just had a talk about this with my wife. I walked from primary to graduation. My son starts kindergarten in September and falls inside the perimeter that doesn’t allow bussing. But at his age there’s no way he can walk. So we will be driving him or walking with him.


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[FishingMOM]

K-3 bus 20 km each way
4-9 walk 6 blocks
10-12 bus 1.5 hrs each way
College walk 3.5km Peterborough (nasty hills)

[ETOWNCANUCK]

HE to the double LL NO.

[Flight01]

Crazy what people Are used to.

For me I did have a bus. Except for any after school program. So usually 1-2 nights a week I’d have to walk home after volleyball
Or soccer practice. That was 3.5km walk... once the bay froze it was a quick 1.25 km walk across the frozen bay. Just don’t cross a 1km stretch if the wind is gonna gust. You will get whited out. Much like the prairie conditions where you can’t see 10 yards.

[FishingMOM]

Stinky....
Has had a mix.
Our house is 3.1km from school now so he qualifies for bus. But with nice weather he roller blades, bikes, or long boards sometimes.
He also goes to sait twice a week he takes the bus to the train. Then when hes done either catches a ride home or ctrain and i meet him at ctrain


But when he was little some daycares walked some drove him to school.

[Armorman]

It was 8 miles to my grade 1 - 9 school and 25 miles to my high school so no, I never walked. However, I'm old enough to remember kids getting punted off the school bus for misbehaving and having to walk from there. Imagine a bus driver doing that today....lol. And no cell phone to call mommy for a pick up either!

[58thecat]

Originally Posted by Armorman

It was 8 miles to my grade 1 - 9 school and 25 miles to my high school so no, I never walked. However, I'm old enough to remember kids getting punted off the school bus for misbehaving and having to walk from there. Imagine a bus driver doing that today....lol. And no cell phone to call mommy for a pick up either!

And you didn't tell your parents because you were acting up or it was way worse than a walk....a firm grab by the ear and a wack with a wooden spoon and then the words...wait until your father gets home

....today it's a call to the school because it's everyone else's fault

[thumper]

We walked - My parents had better things to do than walk a perfectly healthy kid to school! Heck I don't even think they knew where my school was! When I was an english kid going to school in a french neighbourhood in Montreal, we had to know a variety of alternate routes to get home, or the high school french kids would catch us and shake us down.

[58thecat]

Walking to school gave you quality time with the girlfriend too

[Okotok]

You can see how the film or camera has been tilted to make things seem steeper. Pretty crazy regardless.

[BobM]

Never walked to school always ran cause I was always late..

[Stinky Buffalo]

Walked to school, and sometimes took my bike.

[wolf308]

Yup. Generally walked to school grade 2-12

[JD848]

The best thing about walking to school was that you could watch the bullies that liked to beat up on the weaker kids and I was able to pick on the bullies and give them there own medicine .This made the weaker ones hold there ground after they weren't intimidated .

Made friends for life on both sides after a while. Intimidation for a child is very frightening ,but most bullies are just a product of there own environment that gets passed down from within there home.As we grow older we can even see adults that are control freaks which is a pure sign of being an insecure person and boarder line bullies.

Not a nice thing to repeat to anyone ,but that's the way it went down.

Some kids were more afraid to walk home back then , then the ones on that rock face or mountain side.The ones in the film were more relaxed then you can imagine with no fright what so ever.Yet there location is something where we wouldn't want to live or imagine living.

Sorry for derailing this thread ,but these thing I remember well while walking to school.

JD

[roper1]

Rode the bus, if I had to walk that stuff I wouldn't have made it.