It absolutely frosts me that the bus stops in front of practically every other house and the kid dozzles out of the house when the bus doors open. If the kid isn’t going to school that day the bus waits for the kids for up to a minute. My attitude is if the kid isn’t waiting at the street there is no reason to even slow down.
That’s the way it used to be. The school bus wouldn’t even slow down if the kid wasn’t waiting at the appointed stop. Back in those days, you would see kids from time to time, cutting through people’s backyards, trying to get to the other side of the block before the bus came around on that side. If that didn’t work, they had to run to school.