There is apparently a phenomenon in the US now, where parents drive to the school individually to pick up and drop off their children at the beginning and end of the day. Some people I work with even take time off from working to do this. When the parents descend on the school each day there’s insane traffic, cars lined up for miles, all idling their engines. What happened to school buses?
When I was in high school my dad dropped me off in the morning, but he worked a block away from my school.
After school I took the public bus, but it took almost an hour from when the final bell rang to when I got home, since the bus didn’t come very frequently and didn’t drop me off very close to my parents’ suburban house.