How old were you when you went to school alone?

Question

How old were you when you went to school alone?

Answer 1

I was 5 and lived 6 blocks from school. I had siblings with me but we all sort of walked ahead or behind each other. It's funny because I have a little boy whom is in 1st grade and we only live 2 blocks away from school and I refuse to let him walk alone.

I like to think it seemed to be less violence, abductions, rapes  20-30 years ago but then again that may not even be true. It may seem that way because it was less heard of in the media so people actually believed those were the good ol' days.

Answer 2

Well, I'm not sure what you mean by that question. For preschool and kindergarten my parents dropped me off, but I was there at the school "alone" as it were, and then in first grade they would take me to the bus stop and pass me off to the bus driver there, but it wasn't like they ever said, "ok, walk a mile to school by yourself!" and i cannot remember when they started letting me leave the house and walking to the bus stop by myself, because I was so young and because it wasn't ever an important memory for me. I would say probably 7 or 8.

Answer 3

Um? I've been riding the bus since I was 5. Parents don't accompany you on the bus, weirdo.

Answer 4

I start to go back from kinder garden alone when I was 6, and in first grade I was going alone. My mom was going with me just first day to show me where school is.

Answer 5

I got on the bus all by myself when I was 5 years old.

Answer 6

i was 5 and i started walking to school at 11

Answer 7

12 y/o.

Answer 8

6 but that was in the 60's , and I walked

Answer 9

I was 7 when my parents left me home by myself in the morning and afternoon when they worked from 5AM- 4:30 PM.

I would have to get myself on the bus and do what ever else on my own. I live in the middle of nowhere and graduated with a class of 100 in public school if that gives you an idea  of the town size

Answer 10

umm i dont remembered but i know i started my frist school when i was least 4or 5 year old and i went to class myself by walkin in and had learn to go the slide and build a castle in the sand box .

Answer 11

prob 2nd grade

Answer 12

7, but my school was literally round the corner, so all the kids used to walk their together so i wasn;'t really alone

Answer 13

kindergarten

Answer 14

I live 2 miles outside of town and I have never road the bus...my mom has always taken me

but in 5th or 6th grade....don't remember which...I was 10 or 11...and my mom would drop me of at my grandmothers at the top of a big hill on the main street of town...and right down the hill and to the left was the school...she let me walk to school from there...and I would walk back after school....on Wednesdays and Thursdays she worked at the hospital and I would walk there after school.  My town is not even 2,000 people so......it is pretty safe

Answer 15

5, I started school early.  I graduated when I was 17 and didn't turn 18 until 3 months later when I was in the Navy.

Answer 16

Six ,but that was more than eighty years ago .

Answer 17

well i never got to  because i'm in the fifth grade. My mom is a teacher in first grade and i always have to go to school with her. our school goes from preschool to fifth grade. Next year will be my first time.

Answer 18

I was 8, but things were different back then.

Answer 19

i lived in walking distance of my school so i was allowed to walk by myself in the 3 or 4 grade

Answer 20

I went to nursery school on the bus when I was four.

Answer 21

First grade... school was only 6 blocks away... and it was a different era, the violence we have today didn't exist so it was safe

Edit... and yes I walked