From someone who has been driving 35 min each way to school every day for two years... it's HARD! It eats up my entire day, DS is tired and hot and cranky when we get home. We are carpooling with another family this year and we each drive one week. Add into that minimum days, time I have to be on campus for this or that? It's a lot of work. I am essentially a professional taxi.
We are changing schools next year. If the school were perfect for DS, I'd keep on driving. But there have been a huge multitude of problems. So we're looking for a closer option.