During nice weather, surely, but it might be very unpleasant when raining. When I hear these stories about how children in USA go to school, I am always astoni

During nice weather, surely, but it might be very unpleasant when raining. When I hear these stories about how children in USA go to school, I am always astonished. In Europe, my parents took me to the school one single time, for the first school day, when I was 6 years old. Everyday after that I have gone there and come back alone, for a walk of about one mile and a half. Several years later, I continued my studies at a more distant school, to which I was going alone using the public transportation of the city, by bus, the same as most of my colleagues. Even during the 1st grade (i.e. at 6 to 7 years old) any child would have considered very shameful to be brought to the school by their parents, as an indication that they would have been somehow helpless or handicapped.