I went to high school with the asian kid on the best buy phone geek commercials. I think he's now the most famous person that has ever attended my high school

So far, the highlight of this day in sports has been USA playing well but still losing to Ireland in the Rugby World Cup.

I'm in 22 fantasy football leagues. That's too many.

yeah

Just finished wasting 45 minutes of my day trying to get VoxJr to school. This year he has a bus. This is some good, some bad. Good in that I don't have to pile BabyVox into the car first thing in the morning, and we had a carpool, so that was cool. The bus can be a stressful start to the day for VoxJr. And a stressful end to the day, which makes my afternoons that much harder. But, we're the last stop in the morning and the first in the afternoon, and that's good for us.

So, he gets a ticket with his pick-up time. Never mind that with this pick-up time, it's physically impossible for the kids to be at school on time, but I'm sure the bus driver will work within the ten-minute "window" you're supposed to have and get them there on time.

First day of school, the bus was about 35 minutes late. OK, I said, people are taking pictures, etc. I'll cut them some slack. But, there were only four other kids on the bus.
Next day, the bus was about 15 minutes late. Big improvement, but the kids are still getting to school late. Then it got better, ten minutes late on Thursday, and about the same on Friday. But mind you, VoxJr was getting picked up at 8:00. School starts and 8:00, and if you count the travel time, park time for the bus, and the distance the kids have to walk to their classroom, you're talking 15+ minutes more, and that's if you don't catch another bus picking up kids on the way (we drive through two other school districts to get to our school).

Friday, an "official letter" is given to us by the bus driver, saying to be at the bus stop twenty minutes earlier on Monday, so the kids won't be late for school. I give myself some wiggle room here, remembering that we're the last on the stop, so 15 minutes earlier should be fine. As we're walking up to the stop, I see a bus from the same bus company haul past our stop. I'm thinking to myself, crap, maybe she was so early we missed the bus, but at the same time logic is saying that bus was going too fast to have even stopped.

So we wait and we wait, and after 20 minutes, we go back to the house, pack up BabyVox and drive VoxJr to school.

On the way home, we past his bus going to the school. So it was no earlier than it had been the previous week.

Hopefully they'll work it out. Our SD has staggered start times for three different school age groups explicitly so each bus driver can make three rounds in the morning, instead of having 3x as many busses and drivers. So in bad weather we can have quite the snowball effect- he's still on the latest schedule, for the K-5 group. This year there was no 'in' bus the first two days. On day two I went into the transportation office, and the coordinator pulled up the GPS tracking of his morning bus- neither day did he turn onto our street, so they were going to address it with the driver. Day 3 was the flood day, so I drove him since I knew the bus would be mega-late, and I had to be in Delaware at 10. Day 4, finally the bus shows up- on time, empty. Today, 1 kid. And he's the last stop before school. We have just about the opposite problem- it's less than 5 minutes to school, and he'll get there before 8:30, and school doesn't start until 9:05. Unstructured time is not the best for him at this point..

Trent Steele wrote:I'm in 22 fantasy football leagues. That's too many.

How is that even possible

at least every play that happens in every game is good for you

Eddie Jordan wrote:the best buy phone geek commercials. I think he's now the most famous person that has ever attended my high school

the what then?

MrsVox wrote:Just finished wasting 45 minutes of my day trying to get VoxJr to school.

School bus company cartels have taken over the education establishments, if not the entire legislatures, of many US states and now essentially determine the school calendar as well as an exorbitant, and pivotal, share of school budgets.

In an internet era, it is waaaaay past time for the entire subject of the operating infrastructure for public education - I'm talking real estate, transportation, provision of nutrients, the whole deal - to be subjected to thorough review, and radical overhaul.

phatj wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:I'm in 22 fantasy football leagues. That's too many.

How is that even possible

he moyer's his family remember

drsmooth wrote:

MrsVox wrote:Just finished wasting 45 minutes of my day trying to get VoxJr to school.

School bus company cartels have taken over the education establishments, if not the entire legislatures, of many US states and now essentially determine the school calendar as well as an exorbitant, and pivotal, share of school budgets.

In an internet era, it is waaaaay past time for the entire subject of the operating infrastructure for public education - I'm talking real estate, transportation, provision of nutrients, the whole deal - to be subjected to thorough review, and radical overhaul.

Kind of think encouraging kids to walk/bike to school would accomplish the same thing a lot more simply.
http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/
And yes, I know many kids live some distance from their school, but then we'd be in the planning thread.

getting a hi top fade was a dream best left unrealized. I look a lot more like one of the Humungus's rejects or maybe Iggy Koopa than Brandon Jennings

Thanks for being the guinea pig on that one

MrsVox wrote:Just finished wasting 45 minutes of my day trying to get VoxJr to school. This year he has a bus. This is some good, some bad. Good in that I don't have to pile BabyVox into the car first thing in the morning, and we had a carpool, so that was cool. The bus can be a stressful start to the day for VoxJr. And a stressful end to the day, which makes my afternoons that much harder. But, we're the last stop in the morning and the first in the afternoon, and that's good for us.

So, he gets a ticket with his pick-up time. Never mind that with this pick-up time, it's physically impossible for the kids to be at school on time, but I'm sure the bus driver will work within the ten-minute "window" you're supposed to have and get them there on time.

First day of school, the bus was about 35 minutes late. OK, I said, people are taking pictures, etc. I'll cut them some slack. But, there were only four other kids on the bus.
Next day, the bus was about 15 minutes late. Big improvement, but the kids are still getting to school late. Then it got better, ten minutes late on Thursday, and about the same on Friday. But mind you, VoxJr was getting picked up at 8:00. School starts and 8:00, and if you count the travel time, park time for the bus, and the distance the kids have to walk to their classroom, you're talking 15+ minutes more, and that's if you don't catch another bus picking up kids on the way (we drive through two other school districts to get to our school).

Friday, an "official letter" is given to us by the bus driver, saying to be at the bus stop twenty minutes earlier on Monday, so the kids won't be late for school. I give myself some wiggle room here, remembering that we're the last on the stop, so 15 minutes earlier should be fine. As we're walking up to the stop, I see a bus from the same bus company haul past our stop. I'm thinking to myself, crap, maybe she was so early we missed the bus, but at the same time logic is saying that bus was going too fast to have even stopped.

So we wait and we wait, and after 20 minutes, we go back to the house, pack up BabyVox and drive VoxJr to school.

On the way home, we past his bus going to the school. So it was no earlier than it had been the previous week.

I feel like you just described my life. Sometimes the bus service will call me if they're going to be more than 15 minutes late though. Sometimes.

Trent Steele wrote:I'm in 22 fantasy football leagues. That's too many.

Wow. I'm in 4 and it feels like I'm just spreading chips over a Roulette table. 22. Wow.

there's so much internet this morning I can hardly handle it

Houshphandzadeh wrote:there's so much internet this morning I can hardly handle it

link me some of the internet. i don't have any internet today

Trent Steele wrote:I'm in 22 fantasy football leagues. That's too many.

Dude, do you have an assistant to manage them. I'm in 2 and I hate it already