&gt;<i>Even your list is missing the US and suggests that kids don&#x27;t walk to school alone in the US.</i><p>Not 100% familiar with schools in the US, but in old movies you could see kids walking to school in all suburban settings -- up until the mid-nineties or so. That or school buses.<p>After that, in most movies there&#x27;s a parent taking his kid(s) to school now (typically in a SUV), or the school bus.