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Most kids know how to use the public transportation, and being ouside is safe enough to let your kids outside without needing to be with them. Also, some Europ
by jmrm 3y ago
Most kids know how to use the public transportation, and being ouside is safe enough to let your kids outside without needing to be with them.
Also, some European countries do a really high effort to make their public schools so good that rich people study in the public centres.
- robertlagrant 3y ago> Most kids know how to use the public transportation Not kids from age 3-10, and from then on really just a simple one bus or tram route. There's no point pretending this isn't a big issue. You might say it's worth those people leaving the city to make it happen, but saying it's not life-changing for them is doing them a massive disservice.
- hef19898 3y agoI can assure you that somewhere around the 6-7 year mark, it is completely normal for kids to take public transport to go to school. It is where I live, it is in Munich (always fun to end up in the school rush hour sharing the subway with all those little ones riding the train like a pro). It is simply normal for those and nothing even remotely special or weird.
- robertlagrant 3y agoAre you talking about unaccompanied kids?
- hef19898 3y agoOf course, that was the topic we discussed right?
- robertlagrant 3y agoIt is. I'm in Oxford, UK, where there's lots of public transport, but I've never seen a 6-year-old on a bus solo.
- hef19898 3y agoNext time you are in Munich, take public transport of any kind between 7 and 7:30 in the morning on a normal school day, there are sometimes morw school kids of all ages in a given subway car than adults. Pretty funny to witness, seeing the little ones behaving like all the adult commuters, head phones and all until they meet their friends.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI can understand "of all ages" rather more, e.g. a teenager and two younger kids all going to the same place. Not young kids riding solo.
- hef19898 3y agoThey are, starting around 6 years from what I've seen. So basically as soon as the kids start to go school.
- stuaxo 3y agoThe UK is weird about kids. In the 80s I started travelling as a young kid to school on the bus on my own but it's less common now. + After a while of my mum taking me on the train to London I just asked her to send me on my own where I could get picked up at the other end, it was fine.
- adrianN 3y agoI started taking the bus to school from first grade, as did most of my classmates. I'd usually meet a couple of them on the bus and we used to time to copy homework :)