When I was kid (1974?) a flood washed out a bridge between my house and the school, causing the bus to take an 8 mile detour, and finish the second half of its run backwards. That is after the detour the first kids dropped of were those who had previously been the last dropped off. This made the kids who lived near the bridge on the side of the river away from the school get home about an hour later than they werte used to.
But only the those who had not made it to highschool. The bus driver would pull up to the washed out bridge and let the highschool kids off so that they could cross the river by walking over the railroad trestle.
A bus driver who did that today would be indicted, but it seemed perfectly natural at the time.
Isn't it strange the everyday things we did then that are considered negligence today?
My sister is converting her concrete floor basement to a playroom. I'm amazed at all the consideration being put into the foor cover (for protecting the kids from falls). I grew up with concrete floors and the requisite pump knots. I'm not saying it's bad. Just an observation.
Of course, I do shudder when I think of some of the things we did and survived.