I found the variety of responses to the
school bus post rather interesting. I guess what I got most of all was that there is quite a bit of variation in what different people think is the necessary degree of adult supervision/independent activity of children. Some of this is probably poorly defined terms - some people may be talking about imaginary 6-year-olds and some 11-year-olds - but people seem to have greatly differing opinions about it nonetheless. Interesting!!
