Kartikrom wrote:
Does anyone in the group know anyone who is traveling to CHB? We are considering CHB as our first priority.
There are isolated children who do travel.I know of one boy in year 9.He has no interest in sports.He is happy.I recall similarly a girl on this forum talking of travel from Aldridge to the girls school.I also see two little boys walking past my house in the evening who I think from their badges are CHB.
Personally I think anyone who allows their children to do it is mad as the commute in rush hour to the centre of Birmingham and back can be bad.I should know I have sat in it at times over the last 30 years. This involves in going over to the other side of Birmingham. But its a personal decision.Who am I to talk when my youngest commutes to WGHS when there is QM girls in Walsall. Albeit in a full school coach.
Are you planning to move ?
What was your sons Walsall score ? Are you also looking at KES ? There is no longer a school bus from Walsall .The green bus now goes from Hamstead or there is the X51 bus to the centre and a different bus from there. CHB will involve a commute of 3 to 4 hours a day from Walsall unless you are planning to pick up and drop off.The difference between schooling locally and in Kings heath is a saving in time of about 20 hours a week for about 40 weeks a year over a seven year period.Ignoring any other visits to a school,accidents and road works.A quick look at the Highways England programme for the motorway network might be a good idea.There is always one programme after another.The building works in and around Birmingham involve constant delays.Paradise circus for one.
http://roads.highways.gov.uk/projects/m ... 6-repairs/