Was this really young kids? I know for super young kids they do go straight to the house, but when they get older it's assigned bus stops.
I remember having to go out and wait in -45 blowing snow, on one hand I could not wait for the bus to show up because I was freezing, but on the other hand I hoped it did not show up because it might mean a snow day. Sometimes a random person in their car would stop by and tell me there's no buses today. Those are the real heros in kids' lives. I'd proceed to walk home all happy that I have a day off to go play in the snow.
For high school the school was just a block away so I walked. Same deal, get to school and find out it's a snow day, sweet! Walk back home. We did not get that many snow days back then though, maybe like 5 per year. It had to be VERY cold to get a snow day just for the cold, and if it was a week straight of -45's and colder then they would maybe only have like 1-2 snow days then after that it's too bad, you're going to school. Now they seem to declare them more often.
Then you hit college, and then the work force. There are zero snow days.