drop her off at the end of the school drive to walk up to school in the morning?
leave her to play with a group of friends (also unchaperoned) in the playground outside the school entrance at 8.45am?
cos we did this week as an experiment and she was delighted and fine
and other parents do
but I could see my mother was using all her power to stop herself screaming 'WHAAAATTT?' at me when dd told her