school transport to Dulwich Leisure Centre

[east-of-the-Rye]

Last Wednesday, I spotted 2 minbuses dropping off boys from Harris Boys at Dulwich Leisure Centre. A bit later, I noticed a crocodile of (smaller) children heading for the pool from Rye Oak School. (My son used to walk from Ivydale to the pool with his class.) Maybe there's much more to this that I don't know, e.g. the boys were going on somewhere else after theeir swimming lesson, hence the mini-buses, but it does seem a bit strange... Wouldn't it give them a bit more exercise if they walked there?

[FatherJack]

I've read elsewhere on this forum that the HAED kids are bussed to DLC, bonkers but they may have very good reason for it, time restraints who knows. Once upon a time our primary school also employed a coach service to take kids swimming until we as parents said why? They now walk or catch the bus is the weather's bad.