Walking is very good for everybody.
Since I've been retired I try to get in a 2 mile walk every day.
Sometimes I drag my wifes lazy old german sheperd with me.

She walks along pretty good for the first quarter mile,then I've got to tow her with the leach the rest of the way.

my wife is always saying take my dog with you,she looks forward to you walking her.
To that I say HA,she sure don't act like she wants to go?

But back to the thread topic.
Like I posted the kids get off the bus at their house,then turn,and run down the side of the road,or through the front yards to their friends houses.

I know this because my wife has been a school bus driver for over 24 years for our local school district.

Their parents always pitch a fit they want their little brats dumped off at the end of their driveways.

Oh well we just voted on the next school budget today.
Our district tryed to hold the cost down so our school taxes wouldn't go up much.
But with the diesel up to almost $5.00 per gallon,and everything running on diesel.
these parents are going to have to put up with how their kids are dropped off,and picked up,or drive them to school themselves.