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Getting year 7s to school. Is this unusual?

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blurredlines · 06/09/2016 20:04

So dd started year 7 today. One of her closest friends got in the same school. We have made plenty of practice runs with buses over the holidays so she did really well getting there and back today. Anyways mum of the Friend has made is clear under no circumstances can dd friend make her on way to school with my dd or on her own. She just can't face letting her dd go . It's absolutely her choice but I just wondered how common is this ? The parents are very over protective. The bus journey is around 15 mins and they are have phones.

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elderberryflower · 06/09/2016 20:54

I know a 14 year old who has been dropped off and picked up every day of her school life. Lives 1 mile from the school on a well lit road with a pavement. Bonkers.

swingofthings · 06/09/2016 20:50

I remember how anxious I was when DD walk for the first time to her secondary school. It was only 10 mns away and I wasn't an overprotective mum at all, I'd had no problem letting her on her own at home, for more than an hour, but something about her alone in the big bad world was frightening. I remember counting the minutes standing in front of the window and taking a deep breath when she appeared.

I am so laughing at this now! I must have learnt my lesson quickly because DS was coming home on a 15 minutes bus journey by the time he was 10 and didn't feel half as bothered.

Hopefully the friend will reassured her parents that she is ok about it and wishes they let her and they will accept the inevitable that you have to let your baby go at some point sooner rather than later.

PolterGoose · 06/09/2016 20:42

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Floggingmolly · 06/09/2016 20:36

Please God they're not employing a childminder Shock. If she's picked up by a nanny; she'll carry that with her to 6th form and beyond.
The parents must be nuts.

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blurredlines · 06/09/2016 20:33

Yep! They both work full time too so don't know how they will do it

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Floggingmolly · 06/09/2016 20:30

Are they actually going to collect her every day? She'll be a laughing stock...

Crocodillian · 06/09/2016 20:29

My family didnt let me until I was doing GCSEs. It wasnt helpful.

yeOldeTrout · 06/09/2016 20:25

There are other threads on MN where folk say similar, it's unthinkable their offspring could travel alone.
One family we know told their DD it was absolutely illegal for the girl to so much as step out the gate onto the pavement by herself, before the age of 12 yrs.

People are weird.