How long does it take your DC to get to School/College?

[magentadreamer]

We have two 6th Form Colleges in town. Both within walking distance or a short bus ride. DD has now found a 6th form college in a town which would mean an hours bus journey in the morning and again in the evening. Due to finish times DD would probably get back home for 6pm. I could pick her up at least once a week. DD presently has a journey time to School of 5 minutes.

Exactly an hour each way by train with changes for all of mine since age 11

Bonzo - you raise a very valid point and it would be something for DD to consider should she decide it is the place she wants to study.

Thanks again to everyones replies.

An hour to do a 15 min trip.

Council far too tight to pay for enough mini buses. We have one coach that takes the scenic route. Spends the first half hour going away from school doing pick ups that ought to have their own bus

Major reason DD didn't try for the grammar because that is worse.

Public bus that doesn't line up exactly with school times and a 3 mile drive to catch it, get home our end.

She wouldn't get home until after 5.30pm

OK private school friends arrive at 6.30, but they have HW time, sports clubs and tea. DD would just have been waiting and traveling.

Mine are lucky, as I work about half a mile from their school. So they get a lift in the morning; takes 15-20 minutes by car.

The pick-up is harder; there used to be a school bus that stopped at the bottom of our drive, but it was cancelled last year. There is a bus from the "other" secondary in town which they can hail and jump on, but I often just pick them up. We live in a bit of a public transport void unfortunately; I would be delighted if they could use public transport, and happy for them to travel for up to an hour if necessary, but it isn't very practical.

Bonzo
For kids who live in the rural areas round here - Cranborne Chase, Test Valley, New Forest, Meon Valley - an hours journey is just the reality and the catchment areas of sixth form colleges are 40 miles wide (Peter Symonds, Brockenhurst College and Sparsholt College to name just three)

Criticising people for NOT doing sixth form near home just shows how little you have been outside the big smoke.

Talkin - tbh you don't know where I live or have lived and it is certainly not the centre of a city. Where in my post did I criticise anyone?? I was giving my opinion.

If you read the OP's opening post she said " We have two 6th Form Colleges in town. Both within walking distance or a short bus ride "
So I was replying with that as a factor. She and her DD do not necessarily live in a rural area and it was to her I was replying.

There are many who don't go onto do extra studies and if they can find a job many of them won't be in until gone 6pm, so I'd say if it's a better college then seriously consider it. When I first left school I work fulltime and didn't a part-time college course, so was regularly out of the door just before 8am, sometimes I'd finish early and get home 5.30pm, but at least twice a week I'd be back nearer 7pm and on one occasion it was nearer 9pm, so it can be done.