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I guess it depends on where in America you are. Around here (city), walking and biking to elementary school is pretty common. When you get towards middle school
by bnralt 4y ago
I guess it depends on where in America you are. Around here (city), walking and biking to elementary school is pretty common. When you get towards middle school and high school, the distances get larger, so more students take public transportation. School buses are very rare; I don't think I've seen them outside of field trips (though I do think some students take them).
Driving always seemed like a less common form of transportation.
- acchow 4y agoHere in San Francisco, you have the school physically closest to you and you have the school to which you get assigned. In most cases, they are not the same. So you end up traveling 20-45 minutes by bus. Isn't this the norm in the USA? Which is why there are yellow school buses everywhere?
- bnralt 4y agoHere you have the school closest to you that you have the right to attend, and then you have the option of being on a lottery for schools that a further away. Looking at this[1], it seems like San Francisco is similar, unless I'm misunderstanding something? One problem is that in some parts of the city, the public schools are so bad that people are trying to move to out of boundary schools or charter schools that are further away. But the main issue there is not giving people functional local schools rather than lack of cycling infrastructure (which is actually somewhat developed here). [1] https://www.sfusd.edu/student-assignment-policy/tiebreakers/attendance-area https://www.sfusd.edu/student-assignment-policy/tiebreakers/...