Parents whom TODAY spoke to on Sunday added that driving their children to school also allowed their kids more time to sleep in and gave parents precious time to bond with their children., the situation of long car queues and traffic congestion outside the gates of many schools also came under the spotlight after a Bentley car was caught on video inching towards a security guard outside Red Swastika School in Bedok North last Tuesday.
“I have no confidence in our bus drivers. They tend to get into accidents quite frequently,” she said. “The amount of books that a primary school kid has to carry to school doesn’t seem to make sense. My son is carrying way too much which is one of the reasons I don’t want him to walk 1.5km all the way by himself at such a young age,” said the 48-year-old sales and marketing director at a company which provides decontamination services.
He drops his eight-year-old son off at Anglo-Chinese School first before dropping off his 10-year-old daughter outside her school at Singapore Chinese Girls’ School.
High Bus Fees ✅ Still got lot cheaper than maintaining a car ma!!
Agree to a certain extent. Bags here are ridiculously heavy--my daughter's is often easily 25% of her body weight. Dangerous to have that on a bicycle with other people around. Outside major metro areas public transport to schools is often not great.
Why are school bags so heavy with this digital age?
Wonder if the 1980s or earlier school bag is much lighter. Parents , today children are spoil, if you don't create a traffic jam ,ok loh. If you really think you love your child so much FLY the child to school after all you think you are so RICH.right.
car is less expensive and oil nonsense
Safety? Blame the vehicle users on the road, robbers, kidnappers etc High bus fees? Blame the commercial operators Heavy school bags? HBL lor….
Most children allocated schools in Singapore stay within a 1 km radius. We walked instead of driving to reduce jam.
Keeping a regular car is akin to keeping a mistress or mister. Expensive and needs upkeeping.
can afford to buy car yet complain high bus fees ~
How about drivers of 2 seater cars and sports cars. Why do they drive at all? They should be taking public transport. As compared to school kids they’re clearly of age to take public transport!
BS. These problems were also faced by parents back then. Yet, they didnt drove their kids to school.
These parents are just ridiculous. How did they grow up then? Were their parents the same? When the kids are home , you make time for them to bond not in the car. You need to let your children grow up and instil confidence and trust.
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