Originally Posted by jrickards

I'm in Sudbury. When we moved to our current home, our sons were 5 & 7 and excited to be able to walk to school (about 5 min away). However, in the winter, they seemed to take about 30 min, which was more than could be accounted for by the more challenging walking conditions so one day, we watched them from afar and learned that they would go up and down and slide on every snow bank in the 500 meter route home.

Their high school is about 6km, too far to walk so they have to be bused, school or city. By coincidence, the city bus route that will take them directly to the school happens to be 1 corner closer than their school bus stop.

Their high school is the furthest of the 5 high schools within 6 km of our house but it is the only English Catholic within that range, the other English Catholic is about 12km away: the other 4 are either French Catholic or English Public (each of the 3 have their own specializations).