Posted on 02/19/2024 9:08:40 AM PST by Morgana
Kindergarteners in rural West Virginia must endure a three hour commute to and from school each day, leaving the five year-olds too exhausted to play.
Among them is Kolbie Hale, 5, who gets up at 5am each weekday and leaves her home in Waiteville, West Virginia, each day at 5.45am- like clockwork.
Her parents drive her to the home of her grandmother Tammy Hale, a few miles down the road. There, she she waits for the 6.25am bus to Mountain View Elementary and Middle School, with the trip taking 90 minutes.
She arrives in time to recite the pledge of allegiance with the rest of her classmates at 8.25am, The Register-Herald reported.
The school, located on Mountain View in Union, is just under 20 miles from Kolbie's home in Waiteville, roughly a 30-minute drive by car if taking State Highwy 3 West, the most direct route.
But Kolbie is picked up first and must then endure a very scenic route to collect the other children, including a trip over Peters Mountain. And at the end of the day, she must suffer the same journey in reverse after school ends at 3:25pm - meaning she's the last student dropped off, at around 5pm.
She has dinner with her parents Erin and Rick Hale, who have themselves just finished work, and is in bed by 7:30pm to give her enough sleep before she wakes up again at 5am the next day.
An excruciatingly long day for a five-year-old that has caused a mix of frustration and angst by many families, who claim that the bus times have only increased over the years with the consolidation of several schools in Monroe County.
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Get an electric school bus and solve ALL your problems.
The way they do it around here:
—The local churches have physical activities, teams etc for socializing home school kids.
—Parents who are good in one subject teach that subject to several kids.
—Other parents teach other subjects.
—They work around everybody’s schedule. It takes some planning but is totally doable.
One of the benefits is that it helps build a strong community—where people get used to helping each other.
I agree. And how hard can it be for a few parents to team up and make it easier all around?
My mother was lazy and my dad worked. 6am to 6pm was my cohorts daily drag to and from school. Hence my extreme hatred for public schools all my childhood school days. Get up at 5, eat nasty cold cereal for breakfast, make a crummy PB&J and piece of fruit brown bag, ride the prison bus to the prison for 90 minutes freezing in winter or broiling in summer, sit in prison with awful prison guards with kids I didn’t like, then get back on the prison bus to ride an hour and a half home, do homework, rinse and repeat. If I had kids they would be homeschooled. Public schools are evil indoctrination centers.
I’ve never been to West Virginia but it sounds like it was the first Third World state in America long ago.
Those kids will grow up with a hatred of mass transit.
“COULD HAVE DONE THAT WITH A STATION WAGON”
Short bus? 🤣
Public school was a total waste for me.
I read on my own and was several grades ahead of where the classes were in all subjects including math.
I would have been better off hanging around with chimps at the zoo—probably would have learned more.
;-)
My mom and uncle road horses 12 miles to school. One room, 1st thru 8th grade. A history book of their Texas county (Mills) recounts how uncle rode thru freezing rain (mom was sick and home) to school one day, his duster and pants were frozen to the saddle and horse upon arrival, teacher had to get him off the horse.
“Public school was a total waste for me.”
I was in Catholic school with nuns. By the 3rd grade I was reading at an 8th grade level. They were lousy at teaching math though, which hurt later in college.
“Brown’s daughter Linda Carol Brown, a third grader, had to walk six blocks to her school bus stop to ride to Monroe Elementary, her segregated black school one mile (1.6 km) away, while Sumner Elementary, a white school, was seven blocks from her house.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
They solved that problem.
Then all the whites moved out of town.
Lol.
My dad had a school picture of all the kids at a one room schoolhouse. He was 6-8 and had a scowl on his face. I wonder if you looked like that every day. LOL. I hope your subsequent life has been better.
Just put the teacher on the bus, ride to school and back home, done for the day!
I’ve seen a bus picking up a neighbor’s kid at quarter to six in the morning, here in Ohio. This because they shut down the local school (4 miles away) in favor of a palace they built themselves at the other end of the county.
Public schooling had two main purposes:
1. to train children to work on a steady basis so they wouldn’t walk away from factory jobs when they got older
2. to prevent the Pope from gaining political control over millions of Catholics.
Those reasons have pretty much been replaced by parental desire & need for child-minding service.
I hate the educational establishment—but I do think in the beginning they wanted the future factory workers to have basic literacy and math skills so they could read and follow instructions.
Exactly. Or if not, maybe the mom can find work that can
be done at home and she can take & pick her child from school going the most direct route of 30 min.
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I fail to see why so many people even want kids or have them if they don't want to be involved in their upbringing.
Similar story except math and me were never friends.
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