Ok, so how long to get to school?

[bunnymendelbaum]

How long do you drive total per day taking your kids to/from school?
Or how long are they on the bus?

(Is there a closer school but you choose to go farther?)

I think I need some perspective before I get all crazy and send them to count with gnomes and sell eye-less fairies for tuition money because it's closer than other schools.

[mrsg123]

3 minutes. We are super lucky.

[KKD]

Our elementary school is less than a half mile away, about a 10-minute walk or a 2-minute drive, but it's a 20-minute bus ride. The middle school is 1.5 miles away, and the high school is about 3 miles away.

Our preschool is 3 miles away, about a 10-minute drive. There are closer preschools but this was our first choice.

[mlt]

We live a five minute walk from his future school. We may move to a ten minute walk. I wouldn't consider houses any farther than that.

[thecatinthehat]

I dont have school age kids yet but I would be willing to drive upto 30mins for a good school if the closer one is terrible. We are looking right now at a 5min or a 15 mins drive depending on which school we end up choosing.

[twolittlecheers]

Right now dd is in private preschool. It's a less then 10 minute drive. If she goes to public it will be 5 minutes.

[h]

It's about a 7-10 minute drive. Private school. The neighborhood elementary we are zoned to really wouldn't be much closer.

But if I add in the time I spend sitting in the damn carpool lines, then I spend ~30 minutes to drop off or pick up the kids.

[lilac05]

20 min drive each way. (PP brings up a good point about drop-off/pick-up time. Ours is quick, but if you're considering time away, it adds up.) There are a bunch of options closer, but I felt like Montessori was the best fit (at least for this year), and his is the closest.

Are you able to work anywhere remotely, or do you physically have to be in the home? A friend of mine WFH, but actually works from the coffee shop closest to her daughter's school for the 2.5 hours that she's in preschool twice a week.

[InBetweenDays]

Probably 3 minutes driving? 10 walking? We're too close to bus (urban neighborhood).

[Deleted]

Five minute walk. We moved specifically to be close to the school. Thus, I hate our house (was only thing on rental market at the time) but three months into DS1 being in full day Kindergarten I have to say, being this close is awesome. We are slow to start in the morning.

[frlcb]

Please do not send your child/ren to a Waldorf school for convenience sake.

5 minute drive

[stealthmom]

Neighborhood school: 20 min walk or less than 10 min drive.

[4speedy]

My DD goes to private school and my son goes to public school. Since I can't leave a 5 yo home alone to catch the bus, he has to go with me to drop DD off first. DD's school is 15 minutes in one direction and then DS is 20 minutes back (5 minutes past our house). So DS a actually leaves our house 45 minutes before his school doors open, we usually get to his school 5 minutes early after all our running around so we sit in the parking lot and wait for them to open.

Because of the end times of each school, I can't pick them both up so DS's takes the bus. He is only on the bus for 10 minutes on the way home but that extra ten minutes allows me to get back from DD's school. I dread when we have bad weather, I know I will be cutting it close to get from one school to the other.

DD's private school is one of the best in our state. We are lucky we live so close to it. Several kids drive an hour each way to get there. It is also a boarding school so anyone who lives more than an hour away usually boards and then goes home on the weekend. (Boarding doesn't start until 5th grade)

[ECB]

To drive, about 2 minutes. D's takes the bus and I think he's on the bus for about 10 minutes. It only does our neighborhood.

[jeaniebueller]

20 minutes. Public school.

[cinco]

It is about a mile and a half. They are the first bus stop in the afternoon and the last stop in the morning , so not a long trip at all.

[irishbride2]

5 minutes. I work there as well.

I would drive 30-40 minutes for this school, though.

Private.

[Deleted]

15 minutes to both our choices.
But it's actually 15 minutes (14 miles wide open backroads) so no big deal.

The bus ride is long though... almost an hour.

[auntie]

It's been all over the place.

Preschool was about a 20 minute drive. I knew we'd be moving, so I chose a school that fed to our eventual public district.

Private academic day school (kindie- 1st)- about 9 miles away; 20 min in the car, 40 on the bus.

Private reading lab school (2nd-3rd)- for Orton Gillingham? 45+ minutes into a neighboring state by car

Public elementary- 5 minutes on the bus, if there were sidewalks it would be walkable in 15 minutes

Public middle school- 10 minutes on the bus, 2 1/2 mile walk

Public high school- 8 minutes on the bus, 2 mile walk

Community college- 5 minute drive, 1 mile as the crow flies but private property

University- 20 minute drive to the train, 50 minute commute in

[zeewifeandmama]

My daughter takes the bus about 20 mins both ways.

[Willis Jackson]

DS1's elementary school is a 25 minute walk or 5 minute drive (1.5 miles)

DD's preschool is a 10 minute drive.

ETA: There is a closer preschool but we prefer ours.

[bunch]

Preschool is 25 mins each way.  The public school we're zoned for is 5 mins away.

[rugbywife]

We are 1.6km away from the school our kids will go to, so one mile.

There is a school about 400 meters away but they don't offer French Immersion.

[Velar Fricative]

The public school DD will attend is a few-minute drive (it's 3/4 of a mile away). She could take the bus since it stops right near our house so I would imagine it's not much longer since it only has a few stops.

Any private school I could think of is further away.

[rugbywife]

You guys get bussing for less than a mile??? We don't! Our cut off is 1.6k...that and under they walk. We live on a fairlyish busy road and I don't love the idea of my kids walking it at a young age. Not that it matter, they will have to be in before and after care anyways because of our work hours.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Dec 20, 2014 3:33:07 GMT -5 frlcb said:

Please do not send your child/ren to a Waldorf school for convenience sake.

5 minute drive

Waldorf is off the table. What would I do without this board? We had no idea about the weirdness.
The closest ok school is a Friends school, but now I'm scared to ask about Quaker schools!

[wavepool]

Not sure if he'll go to the district we live in or teach in. If where we live, ten minutes. If where we teach, I'll just bring him to work with me and he'll catch the bus there to a school that I can almost see from my classroom window.

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[ryry]

We drop dd2 off first, which is a 10 min drive. Dd1's school is about 5 min from dd2's daycare. If we stay where we are when dd1 goes to kindergarten it'll be 5 min away

[frlcb]

Dec 20, 2014 8:24:00 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

Dec 20, 2014 3:33:07 GMT -5 frlcb said:

Please do not send your child/ren to a Waldorf school for convenience sake.

5 minute drive

Waldorf is off the table. What would I do without this board? We had no idea about the weirdness.
The closest ok school is a Friends school, but now I'm scared to ask about Quaker schools!

I have heard good things about yhe friends school in our city, we have friends there and they love it

[h]

Dec 20, 2014 8:24:00 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

Dec 20, 2014 3:33:07 GMT -5 frlcb said:

Please do not send your child/ren to a Waldorf school for convenience sake.

5 minute drive

Waldorf is off the table. What would I do without this board? We had no idea about the weirdness.
The closest ok school is a Friends school, but now I'm scared to ask about Quaker schools!

I don't have personal experience with Friends schools, but I know several people who went to one, and they are all totally normal and very well-educated. The Obama girls go to a Friends school (the same one Chelsea Clinton attended).