Letting 11 Year olds out and about en masse during schools hours is never a good idea. The natural tendency for a number of kids, not all, is to run. I would of. I hated school.
Myself, from first to eighth grade, the school was about 1000 feet from my house...sometimes, I wwent home or sometimes I went with my friend to his house. That is until we broke his sister’s easy bake oven one day. He made chicken noodle cake...in the easy bake oven. His parents were made. (His parents both worked at their pet store.)