You're forgetting the distance here a school bus travels each day is far greater. My daughter's bus ride one way was for some an hour and a half. Also, many schools are schools of choice. You can pick which school your child attends so the buses must cover greater distances to pick up the kids in order to pick up kids from other districts and get them to school on time. They all tend to be 'circular' routes. I never liked the reverse route method, I felt it was unfair. However, the schools left it up to the bus drivers.


>>If the bus takes the same route each way, then first on should be first off. However, in Haley's case, the bus took the reverse route in the afternoon which made her the last one off the bus (or almost the last one anyway).
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>If by "same route each way" means it's a circular route then I can understand that. But you said "each way", so consider the following:
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>Tamar's House..............................................................................................school
>Stop1................Stop2.....stop3..............stop4...................stop5............stop6...........stop7
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>C'mon?
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>Tamar's kids have to go through stops 2 - 7 to get off at school. The return route is stop7 - stop1 for home. The kids who got on at stop6 only have one stop each way.
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>>>>>My daughter had to be outside waiting for the bus (well, she was in the car with me waiting for her school bus) at 6:30am in the 5th grade. School started at 7:30 and she was one of the first stops on and the last off the bus everyday.
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>>>>Our district is small enough that most of the buses run the same route morning and afternoon. So first on in the morning is first off in the afternoon. That's a lot more fair.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>Eh?
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>>>Wouldn't 1st on be the farthest from the destination (school), so in the afternoon, still the farthest to return, so the last?