Back to School! (Suckers)

Many kids are heading back to school today.

Ha.

Seriously though, kids have to stop and take more stock in how awesome school actually is.

As long as you don’t have a severe learning disability, like living in Easton, then you’re fine. Just apply yourself a bit and you’re going to be OK.

Besides, this is the first and last time in life that your responsibilities, although they seem pretty heavy now, aren’t that bad. You won’t be homeless if you fail one test. You’re not going to have your lights turned off if you skip class.

Well, maybe that’s not the case in all respects, but you get the point, enjoy it more than freak out about it because it’s only a matter of time until you were wishing you were back there.

Oh, and stop bitching about your buses, seriously.

Rather than see her granddaughter stand on Route 191, Gladys Smith’s husband drove the little girl to Washington Township Elementary School in the Slate Belt.

Smith, meanwhile, pushed to get the bus stop moved. Eventually, officials agreed to send a school van for the girl because school buses can’t traverse the rural road she lives on.

In Pennsylvania, school districts are legally required to provide transportation for students. Often, parents complain about how districts meet that requirement.

Bus stop location, length of bus ride and time of bus arrival are, perhaps, the three issues most commonly addressed in parent complaints.

“The logic and theory of school busing is to develop neighborhood stops that can best serve the neighborhood, realizing safety first and then efficiency,” Bethlehem Area School District Transportation Supervisor David Himmelberger said. Source

There were kids in my school district who LITERALLY were on the bus for two hours PER DAY. This is no exaggeration. And, you know what, that’s just how it was.

So, sorry if your grandkid is too much of a wuss to stand on 191. Tell her to get over it. 

Wait a minute, these buses can’t “traverse the rural roads”? Are you serious? Do you live on Mt. Vesuvius? I’m not buying this crap. Another case of someone just wanting to complain because … why not?