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School buses in most areas have distance restrictions on where kids can be picked up. If you live outside those areas, you have to find some other way to get to school.
Our local schools also have a proximity limitation. Within that range, you don't get a bus. Walk, bike, or get a ride. (Unsure what that is, as my children are still several years away from public school, as daycare doesn't run a bus)
With the US's current "kids walking alone is endangerment" climate, realistically that means all those kids get dropped off by car.
Having grown up rural, buses tend to shine. I had a 20 minute bus ride to and from town as it collected all the scattered children over there. Route changed yearly to accommodate new or leaving kids.
School ran a small fleet of buses covering the whole district. Routine (within a 5 min window over the years) pickup and dropoff times, the same drivers for years, more or less the same roads.
Idk, I live in one of those “progressive hellscape / nanny state” places they’re always on about … every kid is guaranteed access to school provided by the county / state.
Some students are in a walk” jurisdiction, they can only cross a single road with a crosswalk or are outside of it and MUST be offered transportation to school.
There is no “you’re too far away”, kids walk even in elementary school, and busses are provided for everyone else.
The vast majority of the time you’d only be out of range because your kid should be going to a different school. Rural areas are kind of the exception. But in suburbia? That’s not very common.
Oh, okay that's unexpected. When I accompanied my Australian cousins to school for a month we rode the school bus for 45 minutes each way.