Wandering around unattended? Going to a specific place is not exactly wandering around. Unless of course you don’t trust your kids to go from point A to point B, but instead to just wander around. I admit, I never had to worry about that with my boys.
As I said, walking to school is not an issue in my life.
I just fail to see the great benefit to it that others here obviously do.
It's just a risk/reward thing with me, with an infinite downside played against dubious upside.