<p>In our town there’s no bus if you live closer than a 1.5 miles. My kids walked to our elementary school 0.5 miles. They took the bus to middle school - 3.2 miles. Though they walked a handful of times when there were bus problems and they thought it would be fun to walk home. The high school is 1.4 miles from us. Older son always walked, we took younger son to a zero period program, but he often walked home - at least until he had friends with cars, then it was a mix. He often got rides. </p>
<p>One good thing about all the walking was that my older son was not phased at all by being in the furthest away dorm at Carnegie Mellon - instead he reveled in having a huge apartment instead of a tiny shared room.</p>