As others said, no one cared enough to get into a legal battle.<p>And to be honest, the buses weren&#x27;t bad. Particularly in the winter. You would have been crazy to want walk instead of getting picked up outside your house and dropped off at school. You could get a school permit to drive to school at 14 too (I drove to school in 8th grade), so kids in high school really didn&#x27;t care about walking.<p>I also never heard of anyone actually getting in trouble for walking. It was probably just an empty threat, but it was meaningful enough that no one ever tested it.