I don’t ever know what A levels etc. are. One of these days I need to look it up.

mine starts at 8:00 till 3:00

Yes, but the cheerleaders were just normal students, not stuck up and they didn't wear their uniforms in class.

Yes, because if you're in the hall without one, then you MUST be commiting murder (Sarcasm lads)

In Sweden it starts in august and ends in june. Nothing odd about it, to me.

Yep and we decorate them too!

Yes, don't you?

Yes so that there is a free way to get to schools and more students are able to attend

In the Netherlands we walk or take our bicycle.

Yes. And South Carolina even has a school boat in one area!

Since most parents work in the United States most schools have a policy of bussing the students to school except for in the cities. You have to realize the United States is a huge country of diverse populations. Urban areas have schools that have public transportation whereas world schools a student may live as far as 20 miles away from the school. They also will bus for sports or if a student stays after for extracurricular activities. Usually by junior year many kids have their own cars and drive. For the others the bus is reliable transportation.

Yes, because often the children live miles away from the schools or would have to walk through dangerous conditions. There are kids in my area, which is a small town surrounded by rural area and farmland, that live 10 miles or more outside of town.

Until high school, I walked. Since the high school was 10 miles by road, and 7 miles as the crow flew, well, yes, we needed buses to get there on time. Our parents didn't have half an hour to drive us to-and-fro every morning, then do it again in the afternoon. And nobody expected ayone to walk more than 2 miles one way to school. Mind, this is in my long-departed childhood.

yup

It depends on distance to the school. You can’t always walk everywhere depending where you live.

Yes.....is this unusual? I mean I get the others but this always seemed normal

Yes. It didn’t used to be that way… PARENTS were responsible for getting their kids to school. Then, in the 70s, more parents worked full time, and had to be at work BEFORE school started, so busing was required. Busing also increased for integration purposes… students went to schools that were NOT in their neighborhood, to balance racial makeup in classeooms.

Yes. There's no dependable public transport outside most cities. Most students live too far to walk

I would have loved that... I had to cycle for 40 minutes to get to my high school. And 40 minutes back in the afternoon. It's pretty normal in the Netherlands to cycle to school, there is no special transport system. And using the regular public transport daily would be really expensive. By the way, I see many high school students on e-bikes lately... wimps! ;-) Only as a college student you are compensated to use trains and buses to get to your classes. No, on-site campuses are not really a thing here, very few colleges have them. You live either with your parents and travel by public transports (not many students own a car), or you rent a room in the city where you are studying. The last option is hard nowadays, with the current housing crisis student rooms are scarce and expensive.

Retired and living in Ecuador now. Kids take transit for 30 cents each way. There is some talk of giving the kids bus passes and the government or municipalities paying the bus companies X number of dollars per months for providing the kids transportation. Too many kids missing school for lack of money to get to school and a parent unable to take them. I have seen Dad and as many as 3 kids on a bicycle.

Yes, literally to the front of your house in Texas. It's pretty spread out here and the school could be many miles away. Not many side walks and no public transportation here.

Our children have free government school buses that run a route, but so many are driven to school now and collected. Some still can walk if within reasonable distances.

Schoolbusses are in other countries too...

Where the h*ll are you?

yup. Had to wake up at like 5:30 to catch mine. it was usually late.

they do actually! but it's a lot warmer here than it was in Russia. I miss Russia.

Many of our schools are in a district, not just in our neighborhoods.

That’s a good thing.

Other countries do also

Only if they live too far to walk or considered unsafe with traffic. My kids (and even I) used to walk to school.

Not just in the states, school bus is pretty common around the world

I think it';sa normal thing to do. We have it here in cyprus as well. Not all parents can drive their kids to school for various reasons

Yes, students in our schools can come from many miles away from the school.

Depends on the area. In the city I walked, but after we moved I lived 5 or 6 miles from school, some kids lived 20 -30 miles up the sparsly populated coast, so yes we had busses.

We have no public transport and we have a lot of rural areas, I lived an hour away from my school because it was all farm land and since it is a right for all children to have access to a public education it was also determined that transportation was considered part of that right. America is huge and communities are spread out. In Florida they have one public school for the deaf and the blind in St. Augustine and children who live in Miami get bused home every weekend. The school in St. Augustine is freaking amazing by the way. Best public school I have ever seen.

In Greece schools in the city are really close, you have to walk for 5-10 minutes max. Schoolbuses are only for private or special needs schools. In rural areas children have to ride the public bus or go to school by taxi (one for 3-4 kids) paid by the government.

Australian schools do too, I caught the bus. Ah, memories.

School busses operate like city busses and have a route with predetermined bus stops. If your child lives more than a certain distance (about a mile I think), they make sure a bus stop is near by for those students.

Depends on the city, grade, and the schools.