Transportation at boarding school

SmallTownParent
Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:45:01 +0000

My 16 year old daughter is at a boarding school just outside a large metro area. I feel like she is old enough to go places outside of the school sponsored activities, like the mall or out for pizza with her friends, but I can’t figure out the transportation. I don’t want her driving with other students yet; I have never met any of them, the traffic is very heavy in the area near her school, and all her friends with licenses are very new drivers. The nearest public transportation is a long walk and doesn’t run frequently. I am comfortable with her taking an Uber or Lyft as long as she is with a group, but I don’t know how strict those services are on checking the ages of teen passengers. I am considering putting her on my family Lyft account and crossing my fingers that they don’t check her age. Any suggestions on how to deal with this? I don’t want to keep saying no to requests to do normal teenage things because I am wary about newly licensed drivers that I have never met.