Farmington Speaks Up: Do You Wait with Your Child at the Bus Stop?

Inspired by a drive up Route 32 earlier this week, during which one Patch editor saw very few unattended students waiting to be picked up for school, Patch asked parents, 'do you walk with your kids to the bus stop?' 

Well, Farmington has answered! 

According to the Farmington Facebook page, it seems that parents are split on the issue.

Here's what Farmington parents had to say:

• "I was in elementary school in the 70s...yes the old days... My bus stop was down street around a corner... I went all by myself both ways!!"
• "My kids bus won't pick the up or drop them if I'm not there."
• " Myself or their dad both wait at the bus stop everyday.... The stop is right in front of the house on RT 4"
• "In the '70's, in Vernon, we walked to the bus stop alone beginning in 1st grade, after the first morning. I walked my son to the bus until the end of 5th grade, against his wishes, and continue to walk my 5th grade daughter to the stop. Our bus stop is within sight of our house, but, like Darlene, my stop was roughly 2 blocks away from my house."
  
• "Because we're on a cul de sac, the bus comes to the end of the street on South Road. I've always waited with my kids because stop sign or not, people go too fast even with kids waiting on the corner."
  
• "I've seen people wait at the end of their driveways in their cars for their kids, long driveways but still."
• "Have to be there for our first grader or they'll take him back to school in the afternoons."
• "Our bus comes to the driveway!"
• " I do! I worry all day if I don't see my kids get on the bus! Just before they get on they get the hug and kiss which sets the tone for the day. As long as they'll have me with them I will be. As a kid if I had to wait out of sight of my house I always worried and wished my parents waited with me! I also enjoy the morning chat with the other parents who wait with us."
• "When I was in elementary school, we walked or rode bikes to school. Almost nobody rode a bus."
• "Our stop is across the street at neighbors driveway the past 2 years and I just watch from our house. Next year it will be way down the road so I think I will drive her and wait until it comes. I hate that as they get older, the stop is so far away from our house. I use to walk to school from New Britain Ave. by myself in the 75 to 80s until we moved to the highlands. I would worry all day long if I didn't see my kids get on the bus."
• "I go outside with the upper elementary kids & watch from the window with my 8th grader. It is a different world these days!"
• "Not safe for kids to walk alone."
• "My kids are 3rd and Pre-K. We are lucky enough that our bus comes to our driveway. I'm usually on the front porch on in the window. If they have to go to a stop I would go with them, its to crazy these days."
• "Walked to school. We had a 2 mile limit, so almost no one was bussed."