Can anyone tell me about school travel passes?

Question

If a school accepts a child but you are not in the catchment area, and there is a school bus that picks up in your area, do you have to pay to use that bus because you are not in the catchment area, as someone told me this would be the case, but i thought if your more than 3miles you dont need to pay.

Answer 1

Hmm, assuming your son is homeschooled (this is, after all, the homeschooling board!) why would your son possibly need a bus (school or otherwise) and why on earth would 'catchment areas' come into it?!? You have a 'catchment area' for your kitchen table?!? What, like, the kids whose rooms are on the right-hand side of the hallway are in the correct catchment area for school at the kitchen table but if you have your room on the left side of the passage, you have to do school on the verandah?!?

As one of 9 home-educated (unschooled) kids, we don't need a bus to go as far as the kitchen/verandah/back paddock/favourite tree or wherever else we fancy doing lessons that day.

'Course if you're son isn't home educated and goes to conventional school (in which case you're posting in the wrong place!), maybe it'd make heaps more sense if you asked your question on one of the (conventional) school boards.