Free school transport

[Sheldonsheher]

Curious someone from my daughter’s class gets free school bus to and from school. They live 1.5 miles down a country road so not that far buy not safe to walk. Does this really qualify you for council transport. I mean if you choose to live somewhere unsuitable for a child to walk should you not have to drive them yourself. Everyone else including myself have to do the school run every day and surely this is something the parents should be responsible for when they choose where they are going to live.

Exactly - 'eligible' children. Not all children.

Yes, the law says that children have to go to school. The law doesn't say that taxpayers should pay to get every child to school

Right...

And in the post of mine that you quoted I specifically stated this singular child, who had unsafe country lanes to traverse...

Unsafe walking routes...

Making school accessible...

Legal obligation...

We're not talking about every child.

We are talking about 1 child in the OPs post.

The conversation has moved on from the OP. I have repeatedly said there are exceptions. But if you read the thread the conversation has moved on with people thinking that all children should have free transport to school, at the cost of taxpayers.

No has said that though. They've only talked about children living over statutory distance, which is 2 or 3 miles depending on age.

So why start quoting me when I have specifically only mentioned one singular child who meets the threshold to qualify for free transport whom the LA DO have a legal obligation to ensure can access school?

Go quote someone else who actually is having the same conversation as you.

So your issue here is that it's about what you didn't know rather than what is actually available. It's totally up to the family where they live, and if the council provide transport then that's a bonus of living there?! So they probably did consider that when moving there and thought brilliant, kids can still get to school from here so we can move 👍🏻👍🏻?! I don't see the issue. Where I am, anyone living 2 miles or more away from their catchment school is eligible for transport from a designated pick up point which could be up to 2 miles away from.home as long as it's safe to walk. We live fairly rurally.

Love it when people roll out this line... just shows how self centred people can be.

We live in a society where rules are made which benefit a whole variety of people.

How many children do you have?
Do you have a dog?
How many cars?
Do you use locally amenities such as parks and leisure centres

If you actually pay a lot of tax you would likely be unbothered by this

Our village school closed in 2012 and the council made a commitment to provide free school transport to the school in the next village so every child in our village gets picked up and dropped off from their front door. It is nice not having to rush out but I do miss the school run from where we used to live, was so nice to see the other parents.