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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.)

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[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

New regulations now mandate that at least one way has to be down hill, and there can be no bears.



(When *my* mother went to school, they had to walk uphill both ways in the snow being chased by wild bears. Or so she told me.)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

:)

The only local fauna I remember were some dogs who were noteworthy enough to this seven-year old that they're still a mildly frightening memory.

I don't remember the walk being at all a hardship, other than the dogs. It was pretty flat, and the neighborhood I lived in until the end of second grade was a newly-built subdivision, with sidewalks on both sides of the streets wide enough to bicycle down (which, as kids, we did).

Perhaps I'll go try it out again next time I'm down. I haven't really seen the place since I went to school there.