to not want to walk 35 miles to get to somewhere I dont even want to go :@

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We have been allocated a reception place at a school 1 3/4 miles away. That's 17.5 miles a week, in rain or shine. Or snow and ice, on top of a long school day for DS's little legs. And double that for my 46y old achey hips and dodgy knees.

I'm trying to be positive, looking at running shoes and making the most of it, but this school run's going to be f***g miserable, isn't it?

Would I be very unreasonable to shout 'shut up' out of the window, at the smarmy swines running around the playground of the school 5 metres away, who are gloating and laughing at me, because they got in and we didn't?

I don't see the problem either? It's not that far at all. We walk 2 miles and it really is fine and it includes a long uphill.

Op, how did you do? Reading this you had good grounds for an appeal. And if that was turned down, I think very likely the Local Govt Ombudsman would uphold.

I did 8miles a day heavily pregnant in boiling weather. Never been fitter

Tbh i dont see the problem but i used to walking. In the 1980s my mum walked three miles to take my sister and i to school then back again in the afternoon and returned home after dropping us at school. You walk 3 miles an hour so about 15-20 mins for one mile. Good way of getting fit and getting dc used to walking. Lovely mummy time as well. If too much for you what the buses like or does anyone near you take children to the same school.