re: Why are people willing to burn hours of their lives waiting in school carline?

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I seldom had to ride a bus.


I often waited to be picked up tho. Different times. You could sit outside the school till dark without concern. I’d be worried about my kid today.

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When I was growing up almost nobody's mom worked either. I didn't know anyone who went to daycare either.

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Why are people willing to burn hours of their lives waiting in school carline?

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Carpool is one thing, but there are several cars that line up outside our kids’ school at least 1-2 hours early every single day.

Usually it’s the same car in front of the line sitting there 2 hours prior to dismissal everyday. That’s insane to me.

Last week I had to drop off some medicine to my middle schooler around 1 pm.

There were four cars parked with engines running in the area where carpool line drop off / pick up is.

I asked the office secretary, uhm, are those four cars waiting for carpool?

She laughed and said yes... it's four grandparents they get there every day around 1230 and just sit in their cars, read a book, take a nap, etc. They have nothing better to do so they wait to be the first ones in line for pickup.

There's been a very few times I had to pick my kid up (she either takes the bus home or has after-school activities). I've gotten there right as dismissal time... and still had her picked up 15 min after the pick-up started.

i looked forward to gathering at the bust stop with other kids and the bus ride to school. it was sort of like the kid version of water cooler/coffee pot gatherings.

until i was old enough to drive then i was like frick dat noise.

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Is it because they don’t want Braxton on a bus for whatever reason?

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We have a group of parents (and I’m at a high school) that start lining up in the parking lot at about 11:00 am. School gets out at 2:20 pm.

I asked one of them one day why they come out so early and they said, “Well (insert kid’s name) just doesn’t like to ride the bus, so here I am”.

frick. All. That.

I have noticed people will sit in line in their cars ANYWHERE for long periods of time. It blows my mind the amount of cars lined up at Starbucks or any other coffee shop, carpool lanes at schools, fast food drive thrus, etc. You never saw this back in the 90s or prior. People would give up after about 10 minutes and leave. Then it hit me....

smartphones. People have way too much time and they view it as an opportunity to scroll through their social media apps for 15 minutes+ and not feel guilty about it as wasted time.

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X2 = 20 min / day

20 min x 182 days = 3240 minutes

3240 minutes / 60 minutes = 60+ hours

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Now do it for a kid spending over an hour on the bus twice a day every school day

We don’t send our kids to school with the poors that’s why… and you always show up at the end of carpool so you don’t have to wait

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We have had problems with my son’s bus being 30+ minutes late or worse because they reshuffled the route and didn’t give themselves enough time to pick up the additional kid on the route.

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Split bus.

Happens all the time to us. Elementary school has 9 bus routes. They have 9 drivers for those routes. Because no one wants to work anymore... they have no extras, no subs, etc. So if a driver calls in sick or whatever, now they have to use 8 drivers for 9 busses. So they split up the bus routes. Usually results in the kid getting home later than normal.

For some reason it happens a lot more with after school than before school.