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Oh I wouldn't tough it out, what if one of the children did get hurt or killed because there were too many little ones to watch at the same time, that would be so awful, not to mention, consider your liability if the situation were considered neglectful. And although you found the earlier post rather offensive, I think a judge hearing a case where a mother took a foster child into a dangerous situation that got the child killed, rather than risk letting their birth children walk into the school and to class by themselves like the rest of the children, would be considered to have shown a strong bias!
I think that number of little ones is dangerous to take to a parking lot, if you had an acceptable (finger-printed, background searched) neighbor or friend who could stay with the little ones at your house while you took the other kids to school, that might make it do-able. But if you don't have that type of support, I can't imagine how you can safely watch all the children. Especially if the 3 or 4 yr old have problems that would make them take more risks than other children would.
Of course, letting the older children take the bus would be an obvious solution, but if you have a problem then you have to find some other real solution. Perhaps you could arrange with someone at the school, a friend or older child, to meet you at your car in the parking lot, and they escort your children to their classes. It might be better to let your children (at least the 8 yr old) go alone, think what your kid must be learning about themselves, when seeing that the other children are capable of going to class by themselves and your child isn't. I would think that could really hurt their self-confidence and self-worth.
If you persist in going to the parking lot with the whole gang, leashes on the little ones might be the safest situation. I would not trust a strange child to not do something crazy like run in front of a car.
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