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School Busses in particular are not recurring. You get one in the morning to school and one in the afternoon back home.
If you miss either one, you had to call your parents to come pick you up. Or find a different way such as with a friend, walking or taking the regular bus.
To add, if you miss the school bus in the morning you cant just walk over to another bus stop and take a different school bus, at least in the district i grew up. You're assigned a specific bus to ride before and after school and taking a different bus could mean detention to a full ban from riding the bus because it's "a privledge, not a right" according to the district.
I ran into issues every school year because my parents were separated with shared, joint, custody, but my school district couldnt grasp the idea of me living in two homes, in two completely different parts of the city, and needing two completely different bus routes. They kept insisting I could only have 1 home address, but I literally swapped homes every Friday so I lived in each 50% of the year.
Thats pretty fucked up. School busses 100% show how there are many layers of society who cant take private transport but we decide to ignore everyone except school kids.
What if you do some kind of after school program? I usually go swimming and to gym after school(tho i could drive but its easier and environmentally friendlier to take public transport). How would you do that in the us? Or do you just go home after school and do nothing? That would explain why gangs exist, all those young people who cant do anything with their energy.
I went to a particularly well off school, lots of alumni donations. They ponied up the money to get a bus to come an hour and a half after school ended to pick up the majority of after school programs that ended at that time. The driver would ask what area you lived in and create a route to drive to each areas stop.
For the programs that ran later, you had to find your own way. And if you weren't in an after school program, you couldn't take that bus. Which meant, if you missed the normal bus you were still screwed
The school bus only runs its route twice; once in the morning to school and once on the way back immediately after school. If you miss it, then you're on you're own.
I did after school programs in high school and I had to find my own way home. I remember frequently waiting in front of the school for nearly 2 hours after a short club meeting to be picked up by my mom because I lived 6 miles away and she worked the classic 9-5.
Edit: My home city doesnt have public transportation, so no city bus.