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The primary school is a half mile away but I wouldn't feel comfortable having them walk alone. Lots of neighbors kids do though. The intermediate school is a mile away but on busier street with tons of creepy people.

We live on the same street as our primary school - it's a crescent street, we're at the start of it and the school is at the midpoint, so about 9 houses down from us. It's also nice being a crescent as it's a narrow road and no one drives down it unless they live on the street or are heading to the school, although with limited parking, that's not really an issue either. I'll still walk her everyday until Year 3 at least, not least because parents are required to sign their children in and out of the classroom, so someone HAS to walk them. Realistically though, I'll probably walk the kids to/from school until they start secondary school.....I just think it's an important way to stay connected if one is able to do so.

Neither DH nor I lived close enough to our schools to walk so our parents always dropped us off. I took the bus off and on for a year or two towards the end of elementary school - like 4th, 5th, or 6th grades - but the stop was literally across the street from our house. I guess because of that experience, I'm just not familiar with walking. My parents would never have been comfortable with it anyway, so I think we'd probably lean that way. There's a public school bus pick up at the park a street over from our house and there's usually a cop escort to enforce any speeding or aggressive driving, so I think that would be fine, but I think our plan is to send our son to a private school that would require drop offs.