Charlie and Olive will walk to school because districts in our area are very small. But by the time kids are in middle school and high school, many take the bus or subway.
I walked to elementary, took the school bus to jr high, and my parents drove me/I drove in high school.
What about you?
GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts
My parents drove us. We went to private school so taking the bus wasn't an option, and it was too far to walk.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
School bus from Kindergarten until I had my license, then I drove.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
We took the bus until my sister got her school permit at 14 and then she drove us.
squash / 13208 posts
School bus until 11th grade - then a friend took me or I would drive - we took turns
bananas / 9628 posts
@LuLu Mom: your sister was driving at 14?!?!?! where were you guys living at the time? i had no idea that was legal anywhere!
my parents had a carpool group so we were driven (private school, no bus), then in 7th grade i started public school & took a school bus, senior year i drove myself because i was taking my classes at a community college instead of the HS & there was no bus.
honeydew / 7917 posts
I took the school bus until high school. Since I lived within the 2 mile radius, I had to walk. My parents drove me most of the time until I was able to drive.
pear / 1955 posts
Took the bus to elementary, and walked to middle and high school! They were all in the same complex, but graduating from taking busing to walking was a symbol of growing up in our family.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
Mom drove us. You had to pay to take the bus in CA. In my state, the bus is already paid for by your taxes, so my kids will probably take the bus a lot!
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
car for elementary (I'm not sure why we didn't go to the school near our house?!) bus or carpool with friends for jr high and walk or car for HS.
watermelon / 14467 posts
1st Elementary: Bus
2nd Elementary: Walk
3rd Elementary: Bus
Middle/High: Bus. I didn't get my license until I was 20.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
@mrs. bird: Nebraska, they have a permit called a "school permit" and when you turn 14 and if you live more than a mile away from school (farm kids) you can drive to and from school. Strong stipulations, you are only allowed to drive your siblings and yourself, and you have to take the shortest route to and from school, no stops except for a gas station (across from school.)
We are from a small farming community, so permits like this are very common in the Midwest. I started driving at 14 too, after my sister graduated HS, I took over the driving duties.
blogger / grapefruit / 4836 posts
I took the bus until 10th grade, when a friend's dad started driving us...it was so not "cool" to ride the bus after that. We were able to start driving once we had our licenses in 11th grade.
grapefruit / 4703 posts
@LuLu Mom: haha wow, I've never heard of such a thing!
I took the bus. Even after I got my license, I didn't have a car, so I still took the bus until one of my friends took pity on me being a senior on the bus and she started driving me to/from school every day.
pomelo / 5678 posts
Horrible horrible bus. In fact, we are rental shopping (again! Just like last year!) and my n. 1 requirement is to walk her to school. (Aside from safety of course.)
pear / 1580 posts
Carpooled with neighbors in elementary, mom drove us in middle and high school until my brother started driving. We totally could've taken the bus in middle and high school, but my mom told us later that she felt guilty about sending us on the bus since she was a SAHM. 
grapefruit / 4089 posts
Always walked, until we were old enough to drive and one of my friends had a car.
grapefruit / 4988 posts
School bus through 9th grade. I don't remember why, but high school-ers didn't really take the bus, so I sort of guilt tripped my mom into driving me from grades 10-12.
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
I always took the bus, and I don't ever want my child to take the bus. Our bus got in an accident and rolled over, and there were some terrible behaviors that went on on that bus in high school. I hate that the kids don't wear seatbelts.
eggplant / 11287 posts
I was homeschooled until I was a teen, so I just walked downstairs.
When I started public school, my mom drove me.
Then I drove myself once I got my license at 16.
bananas / 9628 posts
@LuLu Mom: dude, you just blew my mind! here you can take a permit test at 16, then you need 30hrs of classroom training, 12hrs of instruction time in the car, 6 observed hours driving the car, your parents need to take a 2hr class and give you another 40hrs behind the wheel, then you take a road test after you've done all that & are over 16.5 to get a jr operator license & can only drive 5am-midnight, no cell phones, no one under the age of 18 in the car (beside siblings) for the first 6 months. once you're 18 you can get a real license. a lot different! did you guys take driver's ed when you were like 13 or do they just assume your parents taught you already?
grapefruit / 4213 posts
I walked to school all years except when I was a senior in high school and got a parking pass to drive myself.
coconut / 8234 posts
walked to my first elementary school.
was bused to my second elementary school
walked to junior high
took two buses to my high school
LO will walk to school elementary-jhs (hopefully) and take public transportation for high school.
apricot / 411 posts
We moved around a lot so I went to a lot of different schools. Most of them I walked to and others required we get a private bus.
bananas / 9899 posts
We had a school bus that picked us up, but in the summer I biked most days. The school was 2km away (about 10 minutes by bike).
I took public transit to high school (which starts in grade 7 in Quebec).
We'll probably end up driving LO to school. If the school is close enough, she may be able to bike when she gets older.
pomegranate / 3244 posts
I walked from my 1st day of kindergarten to my last day of high school 
All three of my schools were next to each other, and my house was a 15-minute walk away. There was one year in high school where I took a zero-hour class that started at 6:30--my mom drove me on those days. And sometimes in high school I would catch a ride with a friend in the neighborhood or take the city bus. The school bus didn't come to my neighborhood since I lived so close.
ETA: I almost never walked to or from school alone--when I was in K-1 I walked with my mom, then I was deemed old enough to do it alone--but I still walked with friends from the neighborhood.
eggplant / 11716 posts
School bus or I rode with my mom after she started teaching again. When I got to HS, I rode with my older brother who drove both of us until I got my own license.
bananas / 9357 posts
Daycare drove us for part of elementary then my brother and I walked the other half of elementary. Walked to jr high and high school until I got my license then drove.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
@mrs. bird: For the school permit we had to take a normal driving and written test at the DMV (like you would for a driver's license) but I took driver's ed very early like the summer I was 14 (before I started driving to school.) In our state in order to get your "real" license (POP permit at 16) we had to have driver's ed or our parents had to drive like 200 hours with us or something like that. But because I did it all at 14 I just went in and got my license after my eye test since I passed driver's ed and that passed as me passing for the state.
At 16 the POP permit has a curfew of midnight, I'm not sure if anything else has been added in the last 15 years but that was the only "stipulation" that I remember. We could have people in the car with us! 
honeydew / 7091 posts
Walked to Elementary School
Mom drove me to Middle School
Walked to High School
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
I walked then took the train last year of elementary. Middle and high were all train.
My niece takes the school bus to middle and her same age cousin takes the train. She goes to a magnet in UWS. My nephew takes the public bus.
pineapple / 12802 posts
Was bused from daycare.
Then walked when I wasn't in daycare any more.
Took city transit to jr high. (2 buses)
Took city transit to high school (2 buses, 1 train, 1 bus)
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