If you're being old fashioned, then I'm ancient ... I saw an elementary school aged girl riding her bike to school alone the other morning and I was like, "What in the hell are her parents thinking?!?" ... It was barely daylight and traffic not busy enough for anyone to be around to intercede if something were to look fishy or go wrong ... I don't even have kids, but after the childhood I had, there's no way in heck I'd allow my elementary school aged boy or girl to walk or ride their bike to school alone if I did ... There's just way too much that can go wrong and after it has, it's too late to regret the choices made!