If only there were free public transport provided to every student outside a small radius of the school. That would make things so much simpler!

Just gonna throw this out there, while yes car=bad and carbrain is real, sometimes its just administrative bullshit that fails to consider the realities of their student's and/or parents' needs and living situations.

When my kids started school, because my youngest is special needs and other specifics they both started around the same time in different grades. For the majority of the student body my town's school district will simply bus between different schools plus a couple of specific designated points so that everyone who lives within city limits is within about half a mile of a place that the buses pick up and drop off. They require a parent/guardian present at pickup time for 3k-Kindergarten bus pickup and dropoff. For students in special ed they instead get to take the special ed bus which has extra staff and seatbelts and only picks up and drops off at the home and also requires a parent/guardian present. Both do pickups and dropoffs at about the same time. I'm sure you can see where this is going.

Since my wife has been a stay at home mom (primarily due to daycare costs exceeding what she would realistically make) and can't be in 2 places at once^[citation needed]^ we were forced to do our own pickups and dropoffs instead of bussing. I'm sure there's similar levels of bullshit if your kids are in different grades putting them at different schools because the local school administrators seem to be really good at not fully thinking things through like that and usually require experiencing the consequences of their actions to change course on a decision