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...the toddlers are crossing the street by themselves in this story?
No, there's a crossing guard! Didn't you read that part?
We did.
Toddlers are basically 2yo. They toddle, and they don't have the situational awareness to be let into traffic at all. Even with a guard you would not typically let them cross the street without taking them by the hand. And I suspect that's exactly what happened and OOP just didn't mention it. Or they use the term differently.
I got hung up on that because I work with kids that age.
Yeah that seems weird. A toddler is basically a 2-year-old, and as the term says, they're not so good at walking by themselves.
Maybe OOP uses the term differently.
The rest of the story: absolutely feasible. And finding the origin can be fun.
I walked to school with other kids starting in kindergarten, when I was five. But, I don't think five years old is a "toddler".
At the slightly busy road in front of the school there were swing out stop signs. I've never seen them anywhere else. Sixth graders manned the stop signs. They stood on the curb and pulled on a handle that would swing the overhead stop sign out over the road. A third kid walked out with a handheld stop sign after the cars stopped and then the kids crossed.
Something happened and that ended. They switched to an adult crossing guard. I'm guessing it was something bad.