Cappy wrote on Oct 13^th, 2013 at 6:23am:

It wasn't me. I grew up in the days when we had to walk to school.  :P No-one was ever dropped off by car.

So did I.

Except for when we lived in the RAAF Base Tindal in the Northern Territory, we had to catch a bus to school in Katherine. 10 miles was a very long way to walk to school. Some kids lived so far away from the school that they "went to school on 2 way radios" (School of the Air). My parents wouldn't let me ride my bike to school either (I was only 11/12). I'm not really surprised though, at the time the Stuart Highway had cars that traveled at up to 100MPH, and those really long Road Trains were very scary vehicles to encounter on the road! ;D