deird1 | (Reply)

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Just a side note to this: in rural areas there are buses which pick up kids to bring them into town to get to the school (more for secondary than primary, as there tend to be primary schools closer by). You need to live a certain distance from the school to be eligible (I think over 5km, um... 3 and a bit miles?) and as a rural kid it can be a PITA if you want to do any extracurricular activity as you'll miss the one bus and need to get your parents to pick you up (a common whinge at my school was this wouldn't happen until after milking).
Some private schools in the city run bus routes (which you pay for) and special/ist schools (for kids with additional needs) run routes as well which are either from a drop off point or door to door depending on the type of school and needs of the child. 5km limit applies here too (but our local SDS does a small, looking-the-other-way detour to pick up a very, very, very into buses child who lives around the corner from the school.)
(Grew up in the country, live 5.1km from the SDS, did all the paperwork).