my 11 and 13 have a bus stop a block away but I drive them...it is just too scary to let them out there on there own. I am sure I am going to get a ticket one morning because I have to sit and wait for the bus with them in a no stopping zone...that was real smart of the school district. There is really no where to park any where near the bus stop just last week a man tried to take a 13 year old girl that was walking to school, she punched him in the nose, that was in the san jose area I believe.