My kids are 10 and 16 now, but we live 6 miles from town and you have to go down 55 MPH 2 lane roads for most of the way, so cycling wasn't an option for them early on, plus the town where they go to school is in the opposite direction from where I work.
Also there's a perfectly functional school bus.
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Work: the 8 hours that separates bike rides.