I think I AM being unreasonable, but tell me WHO to be unreasonable with.... if anyone

[fryalot]

It started snowing this morning.

By lunch time it was really quite heavy and by 3.00 the local school was shutting early and the bus refused to come to collect the children.

dd1 goes to the high school 8 miles away and gets the school bus back. The bus set off at 3.30 as usual, but apparently some of the kids on the bus were messing about throwing snowballs on the upper deck so the bus driver decided to return to school.

The children were told off by a teacher and the bus then set off again.

The bus was then an hour behind schedule. Not too much of a problem usually... BUT by that time the roads were completely impassable and the bus stopped about 3 miles away from home. It was then stranded until one of our neighbours with a 4 x 4 went to the rescue and took all the children home (making about four trips)

Now, I am obviously grateful to the nieghbour for getting dd1 home safely. I don't condone the bad behaviour of some of the children on the bus and obviously something had to be done about it.

But... the lateness of the journey meant that an extra hour's worth of really heavy snowfall made the roads impassable and if my neighbour hadn't been out and about in his 4 x 4 ten children would have been stranded miles away from home.

SO: AIBU to ring the school to either complain or ask what the provision is for getting the children home if the bus can't get through, or should I just be happy that everything was ok and hope it doesn't happen again.

Sorry this was so long, I got a bit carried away.

ta

I think I can find 3 mugs in my cupboard for coffee

That's right Bellavita - and I frequently go through your village on the bus.
I can drive now too which would make any meet-up easier.
Still doing weekly commute to Leicester (usually there 3 days a week) but here apart from that.

We will arrange to half coffee then at chez bellavita's after the half term.

half coffee - do you think you might need full mugs , we are on a water meter you know..

super!

(not straight after half term though please, I have rellies coming)

I miss living up on the tops (as they say in these parts), 'tis not quite the same for the boys getting snowed in in a (almost) civilised village as it was for me when I was little.
But I am not as organised as DM so it wouldn't work

there is actually another Mnetter just round the corner from me, but she doesn't know that I know. I am quite secretive about my Mnet habit in RL

Am very curious now...
email me on [email protected] and tell me where you live!!!

will do squonk, later on... have to brave the civilised village folk on the school run

"guy ended up taking home a load of kids in his car? No police check, presumably no permission sought from parents....."

"titchy - dp and I did discuss random stranger bloke picking up the children and it crossed my mind that without a crb he shouldn't have been driving the children around.

BUT... it was that or have them walk 3, 4 or 5 miles home in nearly a foot of snow.

So we decided that, whilst a contingency plan may be needed from the school, we can't in all seriousness complain about the kindness of him driving for miles to get kids he didn't even know home. "

both of you seriously? I mean this guy did FOUR trips in what was presumely horrible weather to help out people he didn't even know. If you saw a child crying in the middle of a shop alone would you go up to her and try and help her find her parents?

tbh i agree with elliott, i caught a bus 7 miles to school and when it snowed heavy and the bus couldn't get through we walked home, surely secondary aged kids can walk in the snow?
if parents couldn't drive you, the bus was seen as a good help from the school rather than as our right and under bad weather circumstances it was our and our parents' responsibility to get home, not school or bus company.