I live across the road from the school. DS is 5 & goes alone a fair bit. I'll watch him cross the road from the window, just so he knows I'm watching & looks properly. I'm in a tiny town & if cars come this way to drop kids off there's maybe 7 cars at most. And that's only if its raining. The whole town is close enough to walk, or out of town & on the bus.
It depends on where you live, how far you are from the school, how much traffic there is etc. I could live across from the school in the middle of Sydney & I'd be walking them! It also depends on the child & their maturity & awareness of their surroundings.
Maybe the school is saying 10 because they are finding a lot of younger children already walking alone and are concerned. I think it's actually law that children under 10 are supposed to be accompanied to cross the road.
I have a friend, who lives on the same street as our school, who has let her children walk to school for quite a while. The oldest child was 8, walking her 6 year old brother. I live one street back from the school, my oldest is almost 9 and I won't be letting him walk without an adult for a long while lol.
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