Comment Re:Biased Institutions FTW (Score 1) 784
I just moved to Zürich from the United Kingdom. It's absolutely true --- kids will just randomly wander around on their own. Here, it would be considered weird for a six-year-old child not to go to school on their own, particularly if it were only a mile away.
One of the things that helps, I think, is that the culture here allows random adults to talk to random children. (Or, more accurately, the other way round, frequently incessantly, in Swiss German, which I don't speak.) If one gets lost, which is very unlikely given the amazing public transport system, they can just ask. This is very weird to someone from the UK, where it's pretty dangerous to even make eye contact with someone's child...