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Posted: 4/16/2017 9:48:45 PM EDT
[#1]
My middle school and high school were next door to each other . Probably about 3.5 miles one way . You could take a short cut through the woods and cross a questionable bridge and a quarry property and knock some of the distance off
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Posted: 4/16/2017 9:50:30 PM EDT
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I walked .2 miles to elementary school, a 5 minute walk at the most.
I could go in the front way or I could go in the back way through an orchard where there was an open gate to the school playground. 1.3 miles to Jr High School, about a 35 minute walk if we didn't get distracted. If it was raining my mom or one of the neighborhood moms drove us. We could cut about .3 miles off the trip if we crossed an open field and went under the freeway via the drainage ditch "tunnel". For some reason my mom would not allow us to ride our bikes to Jr. High School until 9th grade. 1.8 miles for high school. My dad would drive me to school, but he left for work a half hour before the school opened for zero period, so most of the time I would ride my bike. My mom would drive us to school if it was raining. I remember walking a few times, most of the time someone would stop and pick us up. I got my license at 15 1/2, my dad gave me the old station wagon for my car. I drove my brothers to Jr. High School, the price was two of my chores for the week, sometimes I would pick up my non-driving friends. For both Jr High School and High School we lived outside of the bus radius. I would have had to walk about a quarter mile away from the school to get to the boundary where the busses ran. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 9:50:47 PM EDT
[#3]
10 miles uphill both ways, in the snow with shoe boxes for shoes.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 9:51:01 PM EDT
[#4]
1.5 to 2 miles, depending on what part of the campus.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 9:51:44 PM EDT
[#5]
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A few miles to jr high. I was a rowdy and unruly punk even at that young age. A police officer once pulled me over, while riding my bicycle, for busting the 15mph speed limit in a toney neighborhood that was on the way to school. I told him, "What are you going to do about it, cupcake, take away my bicycle license?". Probably a felony offense today. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 9:52:55 PM EDT
[#6]
County school was 10 miles or so, always rode the bus.
College apartment was about 1.5 miles, walked most days. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 9:58:00 PM EDT
[#7]
I just looked it up and the high school was about 20 miles. Fuck walking.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 9:58:11 PM EDT
[#8]
1/4 mile to the bus stop
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:00:27 PM EDT
[#9]
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12 miles...uphill, both ways...in the snow...the Florida blizzard...lasted over a decade...those of us who lived through it will never forget...the snow was over our heads... 
ETA- Sharks too...you can't see a great white in the snow. We could never do that time in track meets, they were always held in the 120 degree heat of April during a drought. Free range life was tough. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:04:33 PM EDT
[#10]
Three blocks.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:04:37 PM EDT
[#11]
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Voted 1 mile. It was almost exactly a mile. But in all fairness that was to the bus stop, not to school. School was an additional 15 miles via bus. Grew up in the foothills of the Sierra in CA. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:06:36 PM EDT
[#12]
1950s, just under 1/2 mile. Mild climate, practically no snow, light windbreaker was normal winter attire.
The town was barely 2 miles from the southern to northern city limits at the time. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:08:14 PM EDT
[#13]
87 miles
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:12:18 PM EDT
[#14]
It was at least 10 miles and it was uphill both ways.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:12:35 PM EDT
[#15]
which school? MT it was only about 1/2 a mile, maybe 700 yards. in TX it was just shy of 2mi. TX is summer was definitely worse than MT in winter.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:20:21 PM EDT
[#16]
No walking.
Rode the bus until I got a bike, rode the bike until I got a car. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:22:53 PM EDT
[#17]
For 4th to 6th grade, 1.7 miles.
Uphill both ways, of course. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:23:57 PM EDT
[#18]
2 miles one way. rode my bike.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:30:37 PM EDT
[#19]
I rode on the bus, with no heater, and all the other kids were on free reduced lunch but we were so poor my mom made me my lunch .They'd force us to go outside for recess where we had to run & climb on the cold metal bars for the whole 20 min.
One day we were watching the space shuttle launch and it exploded.!! We couldn't even go home. we had to take a spelling test . and we all got PTSD from the fire / tornado drills 
the horror the horror |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:39:37 PM EDT
[#20]
I never really walked to school.....BUT, I did march to school, about a quarter mile, most every day in middle and high school.
Military boarding school. The Corps of Cadets would have formation every morning then march to breakfast and school. In elementary I was driven and rode the bus. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:40:25 PM EDT
[#21]
One block, to the bus stop.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:41:23 PM EDT
[#22]
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I didn't , ever. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:44:10 PM EDT
[#23]
Longest I ever walked was about a mile and a half ('just missed being on the bus route).
I enjoyed the walk FWIW. I got to do it most of the time with my best friend's big sister (Dorothy....SIGH  ), 'loved every step.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:45:18 PM EDT
[#24]
Rode the bus. However in H.S. I would walk home when I didn't have sports. I was the last stop,on the route and could walk the five miles home faster than the bus route could get me home.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:49:17 PM EDT
[#25]
The walk to my elementary school was 3,100 ft on google earth.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:49:17 PM EDT
[#26]
12 miles uphill both ways
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:50:03 PM EDT
[#27]
Just measured it on google maps. 2/3rds of a mile almost exactly. Sure felt like more than that in first grade. That was '91-'92
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:51:12 PM EDT
[#28]
I went to a lot of different schools, so there's no one answer. Closest was a 1/4 mile. It was pretty flat though (not uphill both ways) and they cancelled school if it dropped below -40C (but was still open in the -30s).
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:52:14 PM EDT
[#29]
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I didn't , ever. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:52:28 PM EDT
[#30]
Google says 1.1 miles, LI NY. Rode a bike until it was stolen then had to walk everyday. Winter fng sucked.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:53:15 PM EDT
[#31]
5 miles, uphill both ways.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:00:59 PM EDT
[#32]
Just a bit over 1.5mi
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:03:33 PM EDT
[#33]
All the way from my bedroom to the living room.
I was homeschooled
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:08:04 PM EDT
[#34]
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In MO, no sharks. Polar bears were migrating south because we were told it was a new ice age. And when you saw one you could sprint a mile in under 3:30. We could never do that time in track meets, they were always held in the 120 degree heat of April during a drought. Free range life was tough. Swim fins helped with the great whites but probably couldn't do much under a 4:00 mile wearing them, might have been bear poop. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:08:20 PM EDT
[#35]
High School -- about 1/4 mile North
Junior High -- about 1/2 mile West Grade School -- about 25 yards North ETA: the 1/4 mile to high school = cutting across the grade school grounds across the street, climbing an embankment, crossing the railroad tracks, putting a quarter on the rails to be picked up (flattened) on the way home, down the other side to a 10-ft. culvert that could not be crossed after a rainstorm, running across a busy 4-lane road, then a long climb up 128 broad, leg-stretching steps built from dirt and railroad ties into the school's main parking lot. Which is why I usually took the three-mile public road route on my motorcycle. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:15:14 PM EDT
[#36]
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12 miles...uphill, both ways...in the snow...the Florida blizzard...lasted over a decade...those of us who lived through it will never forget...the snow was over our heads...
ETA- Sharks too...you can't see a great white in the snow. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:16:40 PM EDT
[#37]
60' or so. From the bus
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:20:53 PM EDT
[#38]
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This but Canadian blizzards are tougher when it's snowing hockey pucks and you're being chased by polar bears all the way to your igloo. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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12 miles...uphill, both ways...in the snow...the Florida blizzard...lasted over a decade...those of us who lived through it will never forget...the snow was over our heads...
ETA- Sharks too...you can't see a great white in the snow. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:21:36 PM EDT
[#39]
3/4 through JrHigh, then 1.2 miles in HS.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:22:56 PM EDT
[#40]
I'm not going to vote for this, but I once did a stupid thing and got banned from using the bus for three days. Fucking coincidentally... my step-brother got banned from riding his bus (we lived in the same neighborhood, but he lived with his mother) at the same time.
Our parents refused to drive us to high school, so we had to bicycle 13 miles (perhaps more since we took the safer route) back and forth. This was western Pennsylvania - plenty of hills. Does that count? |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:24:49 PM EDT
[#41]
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12 miles...uphill, both ways...in the snow...the Florida blizzard...lasted over a decade...those of us who lived through it will never forget...the snow was over our heads...
ETA- Sharks too...you can't see a great white in the snow.  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:30:41 PM EDT
[#42]
It was one mile, if I lived across the street I would have been entitled to a school bus ride. But we cheated when the weather cooperated, one of my parents would give my brother and I tried to school in the morning with our bicycles in the back of the station wagon. Then we will be home for lunch on our bikes. It was all uphill going to school, but coming home we could fly on those Schwinns.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:35:29 PM EDT
[#43]
Just over a mile, all the schools I attended through high school were basically equidistant from my parents house. Great memories shooting the shit with friends both to and from even though the way back was all uphill and hot as a son of a bitch in the summer.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:37:42 PM EDT
[#44]
A mile and a half, uphill, both ways, through 8 feet of snow in Phoenix.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:38:44 PM EDT
[#45]
I generally had no reason to walk- primarily because I had bussing. During my school career I walked twice. Once was in 8th grade- 2 miles when my bus didn't show (the driver crashed near the school). The other time was in high school- sort of by choice. 2.3 miles from the school to my house but I took a long route (probably about 4 miles) with a friend.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 11:40:04 PM EDT
[#46]
Usually got dropped off in the morning and walked home. K- middle of 12th (when I bought my own car). Elementary/jr high were about a mile, high school 2-2.5.
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Posted: 4/17/2017 4:22:35 AM EDT
[#47]
It was 2 miles one way
Both ways uphill Sometimes when it rained mom would walk with us |
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Posted: 4/17/2017 5:21:16 AM EDT
[#48]
0.7 of a mile. Steep uphill going to school.
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Posted: 4/17/2017 5:58:38 AM EDT
[#49]
It was just under 2 miles.
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Posted: 4/17/2017 6:11:35 AM EDT
[#50]
Once I got to junior high, it was a 1/3 mile to the bus stop at the end of the road, but i just ended up walking the entire one mile to school. Being there were multiple hills involved, it was uphill both ways..literally.
I was the only kid on my road, so they wouldn't send a bus for me.. |
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