The Mezzanine

So... we don't actually have them. Some kids take the bus to school – but on public buses. If the school has a lot of bus travellers, the public transport company might add an extra bus along that route, but it's still a public bus, used by anyone with a ticket.

And for excursions ("field trips"), schools arrange for charter buses. Which look very different (Greyhound-esque), and are fairly normal to see all over the place.

Seeing yellow school buses at all is weirdly TV-like to me. And seeing them showing up at museums dropping off students, or driving down the freeway, is extremely odd.