‘My son’s been offered a school 27 miles away – it takes 7 hours to walk there’
https://www.lancs.live/news/uk-world-news/my-sons-been-offered-school-31380275
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‘My son’s been offered a school 27 miles away – it takes 7 hours to walk there’
https://www.lancs.live/news/uk-world-news/my-sons-been-offered-school-31380275
Posted by pppppppppppppppppd
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[This does seem a case](https://imgur.com/a/VkFYWBl) where straight line distance is not appropriate.
They’re a child not a crow
What if he ran? He’d be getting two marathons in every day
Why is a story about a school kid in Kent (Sheppy & Faversham) being featured in a Lancashire based newspapers, classic Reach Plc churnalism!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.
Zip-line.
The perfect solution to all your modern transport problems.
Reckon after a few weeks he’d be able to get it down to 6 hours.
So the options are to accept the place, not attend, and risk a visit from a Welfare officer,
or de register, home school, and risk the clamp down on home schooling from the Children and Wellbeing Bill forcing kids back to mainstream school.
System fooked. 👌
Kids these days don’t know how good they’ve got it.
Back when I were a lad I had to walk 27 miles to school in the snow, uphill there and back.
The sequence of compo face shots of the boy demonstrating the various modes of transport he woul have to use is a nice touch.
How about he catches the school bus instead? Like we all used to when we were kids? If they’re not in the catchment zone, then it’s an error. Otherwise there’s a bus.
Councils often pay for taxis to take kids to specific schools if the parents can’t
It is a shame but when you live on an island in the arse end of nowhere, compoface won’t do much to solve your problems
Great business opportunity for a local to create a taxi/sailboat service to take the kids to and from school
They knew schools were few and far between yeah? Why not move before secondary school age? Many parents do that to help child’s chances.
I don’t know how schools work because I don’t have kids and haven’t set foot in one for 25 years but based on this quote: “The council told Lorraine 30 new places had became available at Leigh Academy but she says Kyle is 900 on the waiting list.”
Does that mean there’s 900 kids on the waiting list for that school? Surely that indicates the school needs to be significantly expanded or a new one built?
What’s with the bizarre photos? I think only the one family photo is necessary.
Silly situation, but I’m sceptical about their claim that free school transport isn’t available.
Councils have a statutory duty to transport pupils to school where (in most cases) that pupil lives more than three miles away from their closest suitable school via a reasonable walking route. This includes arranging and paying for a taxi if there is no other suitable transport options
“KCC has been supporting schools to help them respond to the surge in popularity”
i’m not sure “an easy to determine number of children leaving primary schools at the end of the school year” counts as a “surge”, let alone describing a legal obligation to attend as “popularity”
Meanwhile kids in parts of Africa be crossing the desert bare foot for an English lesson.
At that point I’d home school him, with finding after school things so he can socalise and be with kids his age.
If the parents put the nearest school on their preference sheet and the Local Authority allocated a place much further away, I think it’s several miles, then the local authority are on the hook for transporting the child to and from school. I’ll see if I can find the government guidelines.
Get your local MP involved. A local school place is always preferable but a good second is a taxi door to door from the LA.
Have I missed the joke about my Dad walking barefoot 65 miles down the coal mine and back to go to school?
50 years from; I had to swim the North Sea to get to school. You kids are weak nowadays.
“parents are expected to name their nearest school. If they are offered another more distant school, they will qualify for school transport.” So shouldn’t he be getting transport provided? What am I missing?
When I was a lad I used to swim up a waterfall then I would transgress though thick jungle for 20 clicks cutting my way though the deep jungle with my machete. I would then arrive at then descent an inverse mountain to an area with its own microclimate similar to the Arctic. With Ice pick in hand I would climb a volcanoes face until I reached land level again. I would then put my ice picks back in my backpack and continue free climbing the volcanoe by hand with no safety equipment until I reached the summit. If the volcanoes was active at the time I would have to dodge the occasional eruption of molten rock. From here I would jump off the other side of the volcano with a paraglide until I landed in a valley below. I would then trek 20 miles killing a bison on the way with my bow and arrow and making beef jerky out of it for sustenance. I would arrive at the school at the end of the valley usually 7 hours late or early depending on quantum fluctuations, but you never saw me complain about it, I just got my head down and studied.
when I were a boy we used to get up 4 hours before we had gone to bed to go down the pit…..
Back in the day kids went to the nearest school no ifs no buts. Special education schools might be further away though they had little buses or taxis.