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Car or Bus: What's the Best Way For Your Student to Get to School?

Moms (and Dads) Talk wants to know if you prefer your child to drive, be driven or take the bus to school? Or you do you have no choice?

It's time for your child or high schooler to get to school. You know the time they should get to their building — that's the easy part. The question is: Are they driven, or do they take the bus?

Some parents have been wondering about what was going on for the first few days with But for the most part, bus service does run like clockwork through much of the school year in Bernards Township.

ADDED: "Transportation at SCESC [Somerset County Education Services Provider, which provides bus service] is working with the software company to provide the quickest solution possible," School Business Administrator Nick Markarian said in an email on Wednesday.

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So, do you take advantage of the available bus service? Or, for whatever reason, do you prefer to drive your child to school?

Or does your high schooler drive themselves, or tag along with friends who have a driving license? Do you think that's a good idea? Or do you just give in on this one?

Some parents, of course, have no choice. Their student lives within the two miles cutoff (for elementary school) or 2.5 miles (for middle or high school students) in which they don't receive courtesy busing. So they either pay for the service, or provide transportation some other way.

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Do you rely on bus service so your child can get to school? Do you, too, have to be out of the house on time for a job or some other purpose?

Does your kid like riding the school bus better? (Okay, some grade levels may have a sometimes-tendency to think of the bus as a rolling party. Pity the poor drivers!)

In our house, we are eligible for the bus — and our student usually take it. But sometimes, his honor likes to be driven. Sometimes, being driven gives him a chance to review material prior to a test, or gives us an opportunity to talk.

Oh yeah, and sometimes he misses that bus.

Please let us know in the comments section below what you think of this subject. Thanks & I will NOT be at the Starbucks in Martinsville this week, but hope to be back there next Wednesday.


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