DD is in reception. A classmate of hers lives 2 doors away from the school. However, to get to the school, the classmate has to walk up 3 sets of stairs (so ends up out of view of her house), through a wooded area with a public footpath running through it and round to the rear of the school building to get to the playground (from where the children go in to class). Her mum 'allows' her to do this journey alone. On a couple of occasions, other mums of children in the class have kept an eye on the girl as there are a few of us who think it's not safe for her to be doing this joureny alone. The girl is barely 4 1/2 and is very small for her age. Mum only has one child, she doesn't work and has no physical problems preventing her walking. I'm sure she only comes to collect her in the afternoon because the school wouldn't let the girl leave without an adult meeting her. It just strikes me that she's too lazy to do what has to be the shortest school run imaginable.