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I feel for you. I am in a similar boat. I also considered taking only the return trip. Unfortunately, its really a big hassle to take my kid to school by myself.
If you look around other kinders, most school bus routes takes about one hour (my kid went from sai kung to kowloon tong last year and the route takes 1hr 15 mins). however, since the bus needs to arrive at SM (Shek Mun) at 7:40am, that's the reference time the bus company is using.
I chatted with Principal Beverley this morning. She said that the transit between Shek Mun to Jubliee takes about 20 mins minimum (including offloading the R1/R2 kids from the big bus, to the small bus, offloading from the small bus, taking the lift up to the 7th floor, going to washrooms and getting ready for class). The drive from Shek Mun to Fotan is 10 min without traffic, and with traffic in the morning, its usually longer. So if you take that into account, arriving Shek Mun at 7:40am, getting all the kids ready to Fotan, would get them in between 8:00-8:10am. Kindergartens opens at 8:10am officially but Principal Beverley reassured me that if the kids are there early, they would be let in earlier for sure and won't be waiting outside.
Another data point, a staff at the kinder told me that the bus has been CONSISTENTLY LATE last year and bus kids always arrive 10 mins late (8:40am instead of 8:30am). I am suspecting there might be some performance issues going on here and the school might be using the differences in start time to condition the bus company.
So what alternative do we have? I discussed with Jackson about having a kindergarten only schoolbus (so we can skip the whole SM ordeal), unfortunately, he told me that there are only about 20+ kinder riders in the morning and they are ALL OVER NT and Kowloon, which means that if you organize a route just for kinder kids, the improvement might not be that much since the bus will be going all over to pick up kids. This is the downside of having a very small kindergarten session. The majority of parents live in Shatin/Fotan area and do not require schoolbus service.
But I have not given up. I discussed with Jackson regarding chartering a private bus for all the kinder kids in kowloon. There are about 10 of them in the morning. Since the first two weeks is quite busy, we will start discussing such possibility about end of August. So we can explore if there is anything we could do to improve the situation for all.
I have a feeling that Jackson Bus company feels that the kinder kids is "pork bone" for his business (a.k.a. small size, special return trip, etc), so he has been discouraging me to NOT have my kid take his bus actually which I find to be quite interesting. Its a business decision for the bus company to want to pack as many kids as possible in the fewest number of routes instead of considering the kids' schedules.
原帖由 bearlee 於 09-8-11 17:39 發表 ![](http://forum.edu-kingdom.com/images/common/back.gif)
Ooooo.... I just come across this thread.
My boy will also start his schooling on Thursday and we were just notified that the schedule of school bus is rediculous. We live in Tai Po but my kid was r ... |
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