Out of curiosity, are there places in SD County where non-driving kids can walk basically everywhere? Growing up in a small city in NJ, my middle school and grammar school was 10 min walk east, and high school was 5 min walk west on the same street. No busing, and it was pretty much accepted that kids walked to school w/o parents by age 9 or so.
I’d typically walk back from sports practice as well, since the field wasn’t much further away (when a certain cute older chick didn’t offer a ride in her dad’s VW 🙂 )
Which is why “East Coast town in a state without consolidated school districts” ranks high up on a list of my ideal places to raise kids.
