Without getting into a debate about the safety of some modern city centers, buses are a great tool for 10+ year old kids to get around town to places where they can walk and bike.
So what?
What are they doing to do about it?
Your post is incomplete.
(Analogy: I can decide I don't like you farting in the street and call a policeman on you, though I doubt they would do anything about it either!)
Furthermore, no parent wants to be known as the CPS parent. And certainly no kid wants to be their kid. What can CPS do? It doesn't matter.The question is: what will be the reaction of your parental peers, their kids, teachers, coaches, etc., and your kid.
Given the posts suggesting CPS is not fit for purpose, one should be proud of standing up to them, not ashamed.
“ The debate over the actions of Danielle and Alexander Meitiv, of Silver Spring, began in December when state authorities started investigating them for letting their children walk to school by themselves.
The Meitivs never thought letting their children, 10-year-old Rafi and 6-year-old Dvora, walk home from the park would spark a national discussion. The Silver Spring parents were interviewed when Montgomery County Child Protective Services began investigating them”
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/parents-debate-cps-decision-f...
Apparently cleared, eventually, but …
Then ended up spending countless hours talking with CPS after they were caught letting their kids play at home, while they went to the corner shop.
People make unreasonable complaints to all sorts of law enforcement, and as long as CPS is telling them to adjust their expectations, nothing bad has happened.
That's the only way things will ever improve. Deliberately meeting the expectations of unreasonable people will only make things worse.
but yes, it's important to apply pressure to the bureaucracy (through - and to - the courts) too, to change the status quo. that said, when it comes to one's kids it's understandable that no one wants to "volunteer" their own kids for these challenges.
Even in Montreal in more Eropean-value influences neighbourhoods (eg Plateau) you can see this. I was shocked (in a good way) to see 7-8 year olds walking by themselves to school. That’s after living in other Canadian cities for 20 years.