Elementary, I walked, but from 6th grade onward, I rode the bus. As far as I know, we didn't have a "short bus", but our neighborhood did happen to have the bus with a wheelchair lift, and we had to pick up and drop off two kids every day...I was the last person off the bus, so it was always a pretty long ride. I'd try to nap if I could, especially in high school.
I wasn't in special ed. anyway.
In high school, I did get to ride an actual short bus for a year =) Some of us took a vocational class at the college, and they had a short bus to bring us there and back, we'd always joke about it.
_________________
I'll brave the storm to come, for it surely looks like rain...