How far do you live from your child/ren's secondary school?

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And how do they get there?
And the same question but about you when you were at secondary school.
No reason for asking, just interested, after reading an article today.

Dd walks, approx 1/2 mile.
I cycled, about 2 miles.

They are not old enough yet, but when they are they will have a 3 minute walk.

It is literally across a road.

6 miles. They catch a normal city bus at 7.30 am. Bus takes about an hour cos of gridlocked traffic.

10 min walk for my kids.
15/20min walk or so for me when I was at school

3 miles. we go by car as the bus that could take them in leaves too late for me to get to school IYSEIM

About a 25 minute walk at DS1's speed (takes me longer!) he generally get the bus but in nice weather he walks. I won't let him cycle as the route involves 3 very busy roundabouts and narrow dangerous main roads through our town.

DD1 is at a school in the city 7 miles away.
So far she goes by car with a neighbour and I pick her up. DD2 will either join her there or go to a different city school about 10 miles away.

There's a perfectly good school just across the road, but it doesn't offer the options they want

I walked - took me 20 mins.

The girls walk to school - 5 minutes.

I got a school bus - about 3 miles.

ds1 3.5 miles - regular service bus. (It goes all round the houses so takes about 30 mins). Short walk either end.
Me c.0.2 miles - I walked!

SlartyBartFest - it was an article in the Somerfield freebie magazine, linking in with walk to school month. The chap was doing a usual comment on how too many children are taken by car, how he walked several miles through hills, forests, swamps etc to get to school...blah blah.. the usual. It just got me thinking how for us, the fact that dd has got into a local school and can walk with friends etc is great. Not everyone is so lucky.

Frogs - so far, so brilliant. She is loving it. Long may the enthusiasm continue .

Ds walks... bout half hour walk away

Ds1 - about a 10-15 minute walk.

Me - my secondary school was on two sites. So Lower School (1st to 3rd year - so year 7-9 in today's money) was about a 10 minute walk. Upper school (4th year til 6th form) was about a mile and half (sometimes I walked; sometimes I got the bus).

About 5 miles from each school (opposite directions).

DSs either go with DH (who likes the bonding time) or go by bus. They always return by bus.

DD is at the school I work in, so we go together by car.

It's about a 10-15 min walk for my ds

I walked or cycled or bused the 3 miles to my secondary

I used to walk the 3 miles to my secondary. My mum didn't have a car.

1 mile

she walks

too far away
he takes the bus
except when he misses it.

DC secondary is 4 miles away. They travel on buses provided by LEA. The journey takes 25 mins usually but much longer if the roads are flooded. Bus has to go the long way round to pick up at smaller villages and farms.
DS4 wants to bike to school so that he gets home quicker but I won't agree to this because there is too much traffic on narrow country lanes.

My DD takes the train, 15 mins when all is on time (have to say ,trains are pretty good, and problems happen very infrequently)and she has to change!

I always cycled the 3 miles, took me 25 mins.

If I drive DD to the bus it's 10 minutes in the car, then 30 minutes in the bus. If she goes on her own, it's 10 minutes on her bike, 10 minutes on the train then 15 minutes walk.

It's 7 miles.

They get driven. Every single day.

We do have liftshare arrangements. But it's not easy.

When I was at secondary school I cycled until I boarded in the 6th form.

DS4 has a 10 minute walk at most.

I used to cycle 3 miles each way. We lived literally yards inside the 3 mile limit over which they were required to provide transport. It was a very rural area.

About five minute's walk. We moved house to be in the catchment area and the catchment area is VERY small!

DS went to school about 8 miles away (it was a grammar school, which is why he didn't go to school in our town) He went by coach until Year 9, then by train (DH dropped him at the station & he walked about 20 mins from the station the other end to school. In the afternoon he walked from school to station & from station to home (again about 20 minutes)

DD went to school in the same town where we live - about 1.5 miles. For the first year we did a lift share with two other parents, after that she either walked or I picked her up/dropped her on my way to & from work.
For the sixth form she went to a sixth form college about 9 miles away - she went by train, I dropped her at the station in the morning & she walked to college from the station (about 15-20 mins). In the afternoons she walked to the station & I usually picked her up when she got off the train, as it was usually on my way home - otherwise she walked.

I went to school 7 miles away - there was a coach from the next village, but we had to walk about 2 miles to get it.

About 5 - 10 mins walk - and he walks!

Mine was 2 and 3 quarter miles. I remember as you had to be 3 miles to get a bus pass so we didn't qualify.

Wished I had gone to a local school (was grammar) as none of my friends were local.

Am jealous of DH who went to a local school and still has friends he has known since aged 4 at nursery.

Am now jealous of DS!