> has thelocal got it right? How can you get something right about any Italian law? Sure they correctly cited what has been defined by the law but that doesn'

> has thelocal got it right? How can you get something right about any Italian law? Sure they correctly cited what has been defined by the law but that doesn't mean jackshit in practice. Once a law is written, it can change substantially once it gets put into practice, by the many and many little details. In theory the parents "authorize" their kids to exit the school alone. In practice, individual schools can decide whethers that's reasonable or not. The criteria for what's reasonable or not begin with reasonable stuff like "it must be safe", "the child must be mature enough", "the child must walk on your sidewalk", "the child must know the rules of the road" .... But then after a while most schools just ended up with blanket rules like "possible starting from the 5th grade" (since only those kids are generally old enough to meet all the other criteria; so even if your kid meets them before, tough luck). And some schools don't even allow that. Basically you have to fight for your right, which usually requires you to band with other parents otherwise you have no chances winning. But once you band with enough parents, there is a simpler solution which requires no fighting: you just add a bunch of other parents to the list of trusted people, and so a group of kids exits with one adult supervision and they usually just walk together to their respective homes, possibly letting the kids to leave the group once closer to home (sometimes called "piedibus") So yeah, in practice people get more or less what they want, but oh boy how different this is in practice than what you'd read in the newspapers.