If you expose your identity we will cancel it. Wait...that won't happen.

Drop off points allow students that live too far to walk due to geographically large school boundaries to participate. Most children that participate walk or bike from home to school and travel significantly farther than they would have to catch a bus. Parents are reintroduced to their travel range when walking or bicycling which encourages walking and bicycling outside of school. Parents that choose to drop off can decide how far from school to park and where to park - those that want to get into the spirit of the week can park farther away and maybe enjoy some quality time with their child walking in. But parents are there to make the decisions that keep their children safe. There will always be those parents that miss the opportunity and drop-off close in, but even a close in drop-off at a safe location keeps a car off school property. In the tragic example you gave from your youth, that kindergartner would not have been killed by a car had the car not been on school grounds in the first place - which would have been the case if the mom that drove the car had walked her child to school or even dropped her child off nearby. If you are truly concerned about promoting green, healthy, or safe habits for your children, become active in your school's PTA and SRTS programs and help be part of a solution. There are many more benefits to raising walking and biking awareness, but this is already more comment than an "Anonymous" post deserves.