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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - thanks to all for your helpful input, specific and general.  You've given me more to think about.  Any feedback on what age kids usually start walking to school alone (and/or with an older sibling)?[/quote]

I think there is a guideline, but I don't recall what it was/is. What are you comfortable with, given your location and the walk?  My kids were bus riders; but a similar issue regarding at what age parents could let the kids go to the bus stop on their own.  As someone who walked several blocks to school beginning in kindergarten, I'm inclined to let kids walk on their own to the bus stop or school earlier than later.  But, given there can be issues with buses not showing or being very late, it was beneficial for me to accompany the kids (and enjoy chatting with the other parents a while).  When my youngest was, I think third grade, I stopped walking to the bus stop. I figured that was old enough to use some judgement when the bus didn't show up; plus I also knew other parents were still at the bus stop in case there was an issue.  Same with greeting the bus when they came home.

If we were walkers, I'd probably let them go on their own at younger age; but depends on the distance and the walk. I personally probably would not have felt comfortable with them walking to elementary school more than half mile and within the neighborhood. But if there's a reliable group of kids walking to and from school together, that would be another factor.  There was no question that my kids would walk to middle school on their own![/quote]

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