Kindergarten addendum

Last night at dinner after her first day of Kindergarten (which she loved, by the way), Katie informed me that she didn't want me to just be at the bus stop and pick her up.  She wanted to just run home down the street.  Really?! I'm being banished from the bus stop on the first day of Kindergarten?!?  She was sad to learn that our school district requires that all Kindergarten and 1st graders have an adult pick them up at the bus stop every day.  If a known adult isn't there, they will return the student to the school and call the parents from there.  She's stuck with me for awhile, even though, "Other Kindergarten and 1st graders were just going to their houses!"