It doesn’t really, but I’m sure there are parents who are driving to work anyway, and walking or biking the kids would take even more time than the

So I figured they’d just let the kids walk on their own because it’s only a mile and it would save the parents some time. (Plus they don’t have to go out in bad weather.) But then I remembered that even that isn’t allowed anymore.

Then again, I’m old enough to have been a pedestrian latchkey kid and I’m pretty sure if I did that to my kids at the same age they’d be in the foster system.