Younger folks today just gape at me when I explain that I walked to school every day, rain or shine, hot or cold, from kindergarten on, until driving age, when I rode with a friend sometimes. Jr. high was just a block, but elementary and high school were over a mile, all on roads with no sidewalks. We had a whole group of us that walked together, and everywhere we went there were watchful eyes in the windows.
Never got on a school bus until I went to a field trip on one with my daughter.
Our moms told us, “Go outside and I don’t want to see you in here until suppertime.”
...uphill both ways.
Yes. If it rained we wore black rubber rain boots over our shoes and yellow rubber rain coats.
Everybody. We piled the boots in a corner, hung the coats on pegs.