They don’t have to though, which is nice. And not all children do.

SFUSD lotto system, and the schools being far away enough. Yeah, everyone I know in sf drives their kids to school

I've heard about the lotto system but assumed the school district would be obligated to bus kids (i.e. not force them to use public transit alone). The parents have issues with the school bus??

Why don't the kids take the school bus

Some kind of lotto system

I made choices to live near a K-8 and high school, so hopefully my kid is walking from K to 12.

Kids still get driven to school in my neighborhood that wont let you enroll if you're more than a mile or so away (officially it's a walking school). Yet every day the street it's on becomes packed with cars trying to pick their child up instead of just letting them walk home.