> Don't know about your neighborhood, but around here the "kids walking to
school"
> species has long since gone extinct. It blows my mind at the number of
kids who
> get in the family vehicle at one end of the neighborhood and get dropped
off at
> the school at the other end. And that's grade & middle school. Walk to the
high
> school down the street? ha! I think it must now be a mandatory requirement
to
> have a car before you are allowed to attend high school.
Even when I was a teenager, nobody older than 14 walked to school. You
either drove yourself, or you caught a ride with a sibling. Our area didn't
have bus service past 8th grade, and very few students lived within a few
miles of the high school. My own high school "commute" was about a half
hour. There were many students in my high school who had longer commutes
than I did. Before someone asks, I had an unrestricted driver's license at
the age of 14, and bought my first car with money *I* earned, at age 15.
Most of my classmates were also licensed at 14 or 15, and most of them were
given cars by "mom and dad" around the same time. -Dave
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