My son starts highschool next week.
I wonder what time school starts?
I wonder what time the bus ( and what bus) picks him up?

I e.mailed the school - the e.mail address doesn't work. I called the school -nobody ever answers.

It is really annoying.

Especially since all italians (in this area) consider it to be normal...or at least accept it as "that's just the way it is"

I'm sure he will get there somehow more or less on time but is it too much to ask to send a little letter at home saying school starts this day at this time and the following bus lines pass in front of the school - for more info on the bus schedule check out www.whattimedoihavetogetmykidouttathehouse.it or call this number.

Most schools seem to have some kind of registration day a few days before school starts. Ours was Monday this week. Then we were given all the information you are asking about. I would consider paying a visit in the next few days. There were also notices outside our school telling us this information too.

If my daughter's school marked down her grades for tardiness each tme she was late all of last school season, she would have failed just from that! I believe (her) school starts at 8:30 but her bus never got her there until 5 minutes to 9:00! I will be driving my daughter(s) to school this year. Not so much because of the bus always being late, but because I like for my children to be buckled up in their seats and to NOT have two other children sitting on their lap while driving to school...but that's a whole other story...

usually school starts somewhere between 8;15 and 8;30. Usually, kids get to school with their own means of transportations, school busses are organized in smaller centers and areas with very little public transit, in most cases by the local administration and almost always only for primary school kids. For the rest, you will have to figure out if there is a bus taking your son to the school area or purchase a moped for him to drive to school.

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usually school starts somewhere between 8;15 and 8;30. Usually, kids get to school with their own means of transportations, school busses are organized in smaller centers and areas with very little public transit, in most cases by the local administration and almost always only for primary school kids. For the rest, you will have to figure out if there is a bus taking your son to the school area or purchase a moped for him to drive to school.

Alice - as I said I will figure it out and I know that with highschool they have to use public transport (he is too young for a moped)- I know that school starts around 8- 8:30 and I know that sometime after 7 a bus heading to town will pass by the house and I suppose sometime after school gets out there will be bus that comes back this way....

All of these "more or less" , "around this time" "within a one hour time frame" or my personal favorite "boh - che ne so io" is fine if the only thing you have to do all day is clean your house and wait for your kid to get home.
If one has certain deadlines in life (like I need to be to work by 8am) it is a big PIA.

I do think the local administration should have the basic info on all local schools. They don't.

Is a website (which they have) with just a little bit of practical info mixed in too much to ask for?

School starts on ______
School opens at ______ and classes start at _____

Transportation to the school
links to the bus companies for the various lines
link to the train schedule.

The fact is that we Italians are never very good with shedules. Probably it's congenital. I do not know elsewhere, when I was going to school, the building was open since 8 or 8;15 am, but people (students and teachers) kept arriving until almost 9 (I was in this group...), except one day a week when, for some odd reason school ought to start at 8;20, but that schedule was never respected by anyone except Lella (my French teacher), who tried to keep off the classroom a couple of times, even: then she surrendered ;-P
All of the other stuff is either usually well-known to people in the area, regulated by the school itself or changes from year to year and from region to region (like the first school day). Also, in the very first days, classes are usually limited to just a few hours, but what happened to us is that the schedule was never fixed: for 3-4 days we just went and stayed as long as the school decided. So, for the local adminsitratio to put out such an advice would be nearly impossible: too many variables and too many things varying constnatly as they happen.

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actually the solution is simple: You go to the bar - and order a prosecco and ask the bartender.

I know - I know - Italians aren't good with schedules. For example my boss - if you come in 5 minutes late he has a big ole spaz (this is a serious company where we stick by the rules, I can not tolerate someone coming late and so on and so forth). If you leave on time he has a big ole spaz too ( it's only 5:30 - we need to be flexible and what's five minutes and so on and so forth)

With three kids (the youngest is in her last year of elementary school) I have come to understand how things work (for lack of a better word) and at the end of the day I just shut up and go for a prosecco to get my info....or I ask the bus driver (who is also at the bar with a campari).

All schools that I have seen or heard about have the school bus times, time of school for each day, etc. listed on the front door of the school. The first year I was irked that I didn't know where to find the info but now that I know that it is at the school (and must be posted by law) I just go by there and read it for myself. Although I guess getting a prosecco at the same time would be nice

A prosecco is known for being the answer to most problems. Unless you overreact to alchool 8'-(((