Depends on where you live, but for a great many, absolutely yes. If you're not oriented to walking, you may think no, but over a mile of distance is very straig

Depends on where you live, but for a great many, absolutely yes. If you're not oriented to walking, you may think no, but over a mile of distance is very straightforward. This is all personal bias, from fifth grade on I walked 1.5 miles each way. Was about 35-40 minutes each way until legs got longer and then down to 20 minutes each way. Perfect warmup time for school and decompression to get home. If parents let their children think that walking that much is akin to abuse, beyond reasonable expectations, well, that's a very modern look that their grandparents would just not understand. It's like having cars and a safer world means they don't need to use their bodies more as part of day-to-day life, just reserve them for sports.