This would not even have been considered a punishment when I grew up. It would be very amusing if there were not people here who actually take this seriously. I don't know how old you are, but when I was a kid they did not provide bus service for kids that had to walk only a mile or less to school. My wife walked over a mile to and from school every day from the time she was in kindergarten.
I lived over three miles from my school so we had bus service provided, but when I became a teenager I got seriously into bicycle racing and eventually became state champion. I didn't want to leave my expensive bicycle locked up at school, so I ran too and from school for over three years. The bus made so many stops that I always beat my sisters to school and home if I left at the same time. When I got home I typically rode my bicycle 20 or 30 miles even in winter unless it was snowy out then I rode for an hour or two on my “rollers”. I wish that I had that kind of energy these days. And yes I definitely had an undiagnosed issue with "ADHD".
“My wife walked over a mile to and from school every day from the time she was in kindergarten.”
Well, my mother had to walk 3 miles to school and 3 miles back each day barefoot in knee deep snow when the temperature was a hundred, and it was uphill both ways.
But seriously, when I was 15 she showed us where she lived, farmed, and walked to school. It was a very tough life. we only walked a half mile each way, and we had a sidewalk.