A plurality ~35% of high school students are driven to school, though not necessarily by a parent.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0739456X1772514...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/how-dista...
EDIT: This is nationwide, there's reason to believe this percentage is probably higher in California.
Bus was awful. Kids had no respect for the driver or other kids. Plus it easily tripled the commute time.
If I drove them (or when they were old enough to drive on their own), they could sleep nearly an hour later than if they had to take the bus. Since it wasn't much of a detour on my way to work, that's what I did.
Exactly. Similar to the problem many adults have trying to get to work by bus, it often doubles or triples a commute time.
If they're in after school activities and/or have a job, then it seem unlikely that they would get into trouble anyways. Pushing the time back will make these after school activities unfeasible for many, and limit opportunities.
As an anecdote, 100% of my class was coming to the school and back without being supervised since age 8. This was in 90s and not in the US, but the gap of "mature enough to go to school" between my experience and the statement feels a bit high, somehow.
Modern parents would have a heart attack.
That's insane. I walked to school at 6. At 8, I walked to the bus stop and rode a public transit bus to school. The helicoptering has gone way to far and it is creating generations of crippled kids. I wonder if this is solely caused by the media pushing fear or if there are other factors.
In most cases, this should work out better for parents. With elementary school starting latest (as was the norm in many places a decade ago), the little kids end up in pre-care AND after-care. Now, they’ll start earlier, possibly avoiding pre-care.
