I generally agree with you. When I was growing up we weren't this (over?)-protective. Culturally, it was a completely different world from today. :) Anyway, in

I generally agree with you. When I was growing up we weren't this (over?)-protective. Culturally, it was a completely different world from today. :) Anyway, in the United States, most school districts operate their own bus systems and, in most areas, these buses pick up and drop off the children very near to their house, if not right in front of their house. Still, many children are driven directly to/from school each day by a parent. Most people that I know who do this have work schedules that are flexible enough to accommodate this.