Driving the Mom-Bus to school

School starts tomorrow!  Time to think about how much the Mom-Bus is going to cost these kids, er, Daddy.

I think it is ridiculous that our school charges $395 per kid for a bus pass!  Second child gets a discount and pays $365. So I figured out how much it will cost me to drive my kids. I wouldn't bus them anyway because they go to a school that isn't serviced by the school buses, but that didn't stop me from being curious.

At $3.89 per gallon and 24 miles to the gallon in my car, I drive 3.21 miles to school. It costs me $1.04 to go one way and I do the round trip twice per day for 103 days of school. That's 1322.5 miles of driving back and forth to school. Total damage: $214.24.

A friend of mine takes her child to school via bike and trailer. She rides her bike and pulls him to school in the bike trailer every single day. Heat, rain, wind, stuffy nose, traffic, she pedals that kid to school. I'm not that amazing. Read about her transportation calculation HERE.

I figure that my kids won't attend every single day, but the times that I have to make an extra trip mid-day for the forgotten lunch box will make up for the times when they don't attend. It'll all even out in the end. For this guesstimate, I am just saying that they will attend every academy day and  never forget anything. And, gas prices will never fluctuate.

This calculation also does not include Starbucks stops on the way back home. Tee hee. Nor does it include professional driving and referee fees.

The public school bus would cost $760 or riding in my back seat costs $214. That's a total savings of $546.

Riding with me is a freaking STEAL! Good deal, people.