Do you drop your school aged children to school on time?

They get dropped off a little bit early. The buses come WAYYYY too early for us. They get driven in.

My daughter started taking the bus last year and I don’t think I’m ever going back 🤣

I’ve never heard of school starting 2 hours after the kids have to be at school? In my school kids could come in at a certain time and eat breakfast. Everyone had to be in class by a certain time. It was like 30 minutes and no one is late until the actual school bell

Our school gate opens at 8:40 so we leave at 8:15 to walk there and have a few mins at the playground first. School only allow a 5 minute window per year group for drop off so we either have to use wraparound care or be on time.

Mine haven’t been late a day yet this year lol I need to wake up early and feel prepared in order to function properly and get a good start to my day so the routine makes it hard for me to accidentally be late or something. Also my kiddos like to get there early to have breakfast at school with their friends even though they eat breakfast at home too, they just love to eat 😂

We live 5 minutes away from the school and my oldest doesn’t like to be outside when the bell rings, bothers his ears, so I drop them off as soon and the gate opens. Which is 730, class starts at 8

My kids have never been late for school. Couple reasons. First, I’m an early riser and so is my oldest, so we’re never really on a time crunch. And two, I get massive anxiety if I think I’m even going to be a couple minutes late for something, so I’m always early. Whether it’s school or a doctors appointment or a play date lol. My dad was/is like this so I’m sure that’s where I got it from 😅

My school age goes to before school care now but previously I would be late a couple times a month. It’s stressful trying to get everyone ready and out the door! Before school care has been a blessing because for some reason it’s less stressful. We get up super early and there’s less time crunch. Not sure why we didn’t just get up earlier when we didn’t do the early care but whatever we have a system now 🙈

morning meeting is very important to build classroom community, work on social / emotional skills, and is often the only time kids get routine calendar time for weather and stuff. An hour long seems a little long! But having time set aside for a morning meeting is great and a sign of a good school imo!

Gates open at 830 and they shut at 845. I always get there around 825 to get a parking space as small village school so hard to park at it sometimes!

We have never been late, we walk up there and usually get there a couple of minutes before the gates open at 8.45.

My kids are always a little early unless an appointment or something. Honestly I've raised kids for 22 years and we've only been tardy for no real reason maybe a handful of times. That's mostly because punctuality was extremely drilled into me growing up so being late gives me bad anxiety.

I use the bus service unless it's special events happening at the school. School starts at 8. We only get a 5 minute grace period then you are late.

School is 3 streets behind us so he scoots to school every day, I get 2000 steps there and back so in a day it’s already 4000 steps just doing that twice lol. He’s only ever been late like twice, I hate being late because you have to go to office and there’s a machine that prints out a “late pass” but by the time you go there’s 6-7 other kids waiting so instead of 5min late we end up being 15min late because of the sign in process. Because of that I have a timer on my phone to brush teeth leave house etc because being late to THIS school is a right PITA. You can’t just walk in to class you have to get a late pass

We homeschool & one of our favorite things is being able to have slower mornings.

We're starting a garden & getting our first livestock soon, so our mornings are going to start earlier than we're used to but we can still go at out on pace.

I wish I had lateness anxiety. Here we are, running late again