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[randomness]

Do they let second graders walk over a mile alone to and from school nowadays?

I just Googled my walk to school in first and second grade. 1.1 miles through suburban subdivisions. (I don't remember walking to or from kindergarten.)

Comments

[contrariety.livejournal.com]

So it's not exactly recent at this point, but I'd be surprised if they've changed it; in my town if you were beyond some limit (might have been one mile, might have been two) you got picked up by the bus, but within the limit you were on your own. I don't think this was necessarily because they felt it was appropriate for kids to walk one or two miles alone; it may have been that they assumed that within a mile or two parents could easily drive kids in before work, but at more than one or two miles it became to difficult to do so.

It so happened I lived a block from my elementary, though, so I never got to test how my mom would have dealt with this. By junior high she was definitely happy to send me off on my bike, however. :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was mostly asking about what policy is today. For the purposes of the question, your experience and mine are both from another generation... :)