Mesmerizing!

"Klaus Schmoll" (klausschmoll)
12/12/2016 at 14:33 • Filed to: None

The idea that all 700 children have to be dropped off by car is still foreign to me, but if you gotta do what cha gotta do, this is at least somewhat efficient.

DISCUSSION (28)

random001 > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 14:41

I would rage so hard if I was the person who needed to just go straight on that road...

Chariotoflove > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 14:45

We go through a smaller version of this at my daughter’s school each day. Makes me kinda miss school buses, death traps driven by questionable individuals though they may be.

kanadanmajava1 > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 14:47

Don’t kids have bicycles anymore?

Wacko > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 14:48

If only they had big orange things that seat many people, which could go pick them off and drop them off.

FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 14:49

I hate parents blocking the damn road with their large crossovers in an already narrow street.

Source: There’s an elementary school down the street from where I live.

Quadradeuce > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 14:51

This, among other reasons, is why we bought a house in a more urban area. Walking distance to schools is a huge plus. Our middle school is about 6 blocks away, and all of the other schools are under 1.5 miles. We don’t even have bus service in my neighborhood, we’re too close to the schools.

Also, not mowing 2 acres of lawn really appeals to me.

MonkeePuzzle > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 14:52

from the youtube video, becuase I too was intrigued as to the why

I decided that I needed to make a description on what is happening here. There are too many opinions below that are lost on what they think they see here. This was a test by the NCDOT to try and alleviate traffic backing up from the school into the highway. They wanted to utilize the extra parking area for the drop off line and not let kids get dropped off anymore. This plan did not work and was reverted back to the plan that had been in place for years. The drop off line goes around the parking area and the parking spots are also used to walk your child in. The school does provide buses, but some of these buses come by some areas at 6am to pick up kids. Most parents both work and they drop their child off on the way to work. There are over 700 kids at this school and where would you put 700 bicycles if they could ride to school. Riding on a bike or walking is not an option because this school has kids 15 miles away. Who would let their kid ride a bike or walk 15 miles to school everyday. This is an area that is very rural and there is no way the state would ever install hundreds of miles of sidewalks that don’t even lead to a town. You should see it on BBQ day, the largest fundraiser for a school in the state. They sell 19,000 tickets at $9 a plate and have sold out for over 60 years the BBQ fundraiser has been in place. 15,000 lbs of BBQ, 2,500 gallons of stew and 500 gallons of slaw is made and sold here in 1 day. That is something to see. So to all the negative comments, everywhere is not like where you live. Things are different for a reason. This isn’t New York or Chicago.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 14:58

This is what many schools in Louisiana look like every day. Why? Louisiana’s public schools are now ranked 51st in the nation. Parents who can afford it send their kids to private schools instead. Bus service is too expensive for private schools, so most parents either drop their kids off or carpool.

The public schools aren’t immune to parent drop-off either. With many bus routes being over an hour long, many parents choose to drop their kids off so they don’t have to sit on the bus for two hours a day.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 15:01

When seeing this kind of situations I’m always happy to live in bicycle country, AKA the Netherlands. When I went to elementary school only a few kids would be dropped off by car(mostly farmers’ kids when the weather was bad), with the rest walking or cycling. We even had a rule that people living within 750 meters from the school couldn’t come by bicycle, of course I lived like 700 meters from school...

Germany has schoolbusses, right?

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > kanadanmajava1
12/12/2016 at 15:03

Based on how rural that area looks, no one is going to be riding a bike that far. I didn’t see any sidewalks either.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 15:04

This is the south. Buses are for poor people and communists.

*edit*

This is Union county, NC. Monroe is the county seat and biggest city. Most of these people commute to Charlotte every day.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > Wacko
12/12/2016 at 15:05

That video looked fairly rural; not everywhere has buses or if they do they probably pick up so early it’s easier to drop the kids at school.

Wacko > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver
12/12/2016 at 15:11

Fairly rural with a school of 700?

I live in a really really rural part(Rural, rural canada), all kids here have access to a bus. Not everywhere is a served by school buses in the states?

Did not know that.

Urambo Tauro > random001
12/12/2016 at 15:14

...and avoid that road like the plague afterward!

Xyl0c41n3 > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 15:15

So the object lesson here is to get to school at 7:35 a.m.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > Wacko
12/12/2016 at 15:17

I’m in rural Nebraska. We had buses for K-6th grade only, and I believe they don’t have them anymore. A new consolidated grade school is being built next door to the high school and they are just counting on older siblings to get kids there for the most part.

7th grade my mom drove me, once I turned 14 in 8th grade I would drive my mom and then she went back home. 9th-12th I drove myself. The joy of school permits.

Mercedes Streeter > Chariotoflove
12/12/2016 at 15:19

...death traps driven by questionable individuals though they may be.

The school bus was the best part of elementary school! Our busses were then-new TopKicks with a BlueBird body. The driver on our route knew we loved big bumps, so at the last light she’d always floor it so the rear of the bus always shot students up out of their seats on the very bad bump in the intersection. We’d always scream “floor it! floor it! floor it!” every morning. Ah, childhood lol.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Quadradeuce
12/12/2016 at 15:22

I would also enjoy not mowing 2 acres of lawn, but having enough garage space for 6 vehicles and a work shop appeals to me far more :)

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > Wacko
12/12/2016 at 15:26

Same thought, all the stars to you.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > MonkeePuzzle
12/12/2016 at 15:34

If the school can come up with that level of fundraising, you’d think they could spring for more buses, even if they are short buses and only grab 10 kids from one neighborhood area, you’d eliminate that many drop offs and the route should be able to be short enough that they wouldn’t have to pick up at 6am. The system looks very efficient though, but it seems the root cause to need that much coordination for drop offs could be changed a bit.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > random001
12/12/2016 at 15:34

I imagine if you live nearby, or travel by, you’d only make that mistake once.

Matt Nichelson > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 15:44

This is me every morning when I take my stepdaughter to school. She’s in Pre-K so no riding the bus for a while. Her school is next to a busy street and a fire station though so they have guards out directing traffic on the main road.

loki03xlh > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 16:14

That line represents all the elementary and jr. high schools around here. Suburban school district, all students that live farther than a few blocks from school can ride the bus. Instead, we have parents lining up 45 minutes ahead of dismissal, idling the whole time because their special snowflake is too good for the bus.

Nisman > Klaus Schmoll
12/12/2016 at 16:18

Feels like I’m playing Cities. Weird.

Quadradeuce > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
12/12/2016 at 18:43

I hear you. I built the largest garage that the city would allow, about 2.5 car size. Not ideal for wrenching, but better than the driveway.

ranwhenparked > Wacko
12/12/2016 at 18:49

For the most part, they do, but in rural areas, some kids might be looking at a 2+ hour bus ride, verses 20-30 minutes or less if dropped off by their parents.

random001 > Urambo Tauro
12/12/2016 at 19:53

This.

random001 > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
12/12/2016 at 19:53

Once could be once too much, though...