Your use of highscool makes me think you're american, because you don't seem to understand the concept of kids going to school on their own. It doesn't matter if the school has the number to the parents if the kid is taking a 30 minute bus ride, or a 30 minute bicycle ride, to and from school themselves.
I'm French, I think lycée map highschool 1:1, so I used that term to not have to explain just that. Clearly it was a mistake, as I had to explain it in the end.
I, my parents, my cousins and my nephew and nieces all went/are going to school by ourselves by age 6-7. I do not think this change anything?
What on earth does their comment have to do with kids going to school on their own? And...using "highschool" makes them American? What, you want them to say lycée?
Lots of american high schoolers drive themselves, or walk, or bike, or take the school bus.
Yes many get driven by their parents. I used to drive mine before they were old enough to do it themselves because it was only a short detour off my way to work anyway, and if they had to take the bus they'd have to wake up nearly an hour earlier, and I thought the extra sleep for them was worth it.
Kids going to school on their own was the norm for generations in the USA, and until recently I thought it still was.
Now I see every child being DRIVEN to school in a separate vehicle by a parent, blockading entire neighborhoods around the school. It's pathetic and irritating as hell.
And we're talking about L.A., where you can't blame the weather. These kids are going to be helpless dweebs.
Really? Why? I drove my kid to school up until the point that he got his driver's license this year and could drive himself. He's not a helpless dweeb. In fact, he just caught a plane to DC to attend a high school summer program at Georgetown University. He didn't have any trouble navigating himself there. I didn't hear a word from the time he left the house until he called me to let me know he'd checked into the dorm five states away.
