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I 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 i
by hef19898 3y ago
I 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.