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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS now offers free public transit passes for the ARTBus for middle and high school students. I would look into that. I don't think a mile is too far for an 11 year old, but learning to take public transit might be a great way to reduce future car reliance.

Additionally, I was recently speaking to some HS students I tutor and they were telling me that even though they have access to the bus from their school, both to and from school, there are days where there are so many kids waiting for the bus, kids are left behind. That in the AM, another bus comes quick enough, but in the PM, they are left waiting up to 40 minutes for the bus to get them home. So we do need more drivers, but I'm hoping these new bus passes help. [/quote]

Just curious, how far alone does your 11 year old have to walk to school?[/quote]

Not the person you're asking, but:
We lived .9 miles to elementary school - technically walk zone; but got a bus because of a very major road that had to be crossed by very young kids and you're not going to send buses for only the K-3rd graders.
An 11 year old is older and the walk zone increases accordingly, as it will again for your 14 y/o 9th grader.  They can walk, they can bike, they can find a public bus route that eventually gets them there (though I'd think walking would be far safer).  Our middle schoolers walked about .7mile.  Others, including friends of our kids, walked a 1.5-2m because they lived on the very edge of the walk zone, even though the neighborhood's bus stop was literally one block away from their house. Others were driven by parents - hence the drop-off lines/zones established at every school. LOTS of them rode their bikes. 
Now, we fortunately live just inside the high school bus zone; but we see kids the next neighborhood over walking hilly routes in all kinds of weather carrying instruments and sports equipment to and from the school. Another family we know had a daughter bicycling with lacross sticks and everything else needed for school almost 2 miles.
At what point do you believe it's ok for a person to have some responsibility and not be 100% taken care of?

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