From what I read its a dangerous street with traffic zooming by.....
I started the first grade at 5 years old in 1966 in Camp Hill, PA and I walked to school every day for about the same distance; the first couple of weeks my mother walked with me and then I walked by myself or with other kids from the neighborhood. There were no crossing guards at each and every street corner but there was one at the heavily trafficked main road intersection right across the street from the school on Market Street and there was not only an adult volunteer crossing guard at that intersection, she or he wore a crossing guard uniform and if the civilian crossing guard wasn’t there, there was a uniformed local cop on duty.
FWIW, I am amazed by the number of people who think that “right turn on red” means barreling through the intersection just because there are no cars coming and completely ignoring any pedestrians trying to cross the street who actually have the right of way. Add to that the idiots who insist on driving while having their face buried in their cell phones because texting or making FB posts while driving is more important to them than looking at where they are driving. Yea. Times have changed.