Some random mom at school drop off, to her kids: "We've got to figure out a better way to do this. Why is it so hard to get you all out the door?"
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Some random mom at school drop off, to her kids: "We've got to figure out a better way to do this. Why is it so hard to get you all out the door?"
Sweet glory, is that a relatable statement.
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@vwbusguy Gotta say, I don't have kids, but I have about six schools within about ten blocks of me, and I absolutely don't understand all the parents driving their kids to/from school.
It's such a massive clusterfuck, and makes no sense, when I watch busses going to those same schools, every morning, and every afternoon.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to SFaulken last edited by [email protected]
@sfalken I felt the same way passing a school before having kids and don't feel any different about that since having kids. It is chaos. I grew up in a rural area where school busses were the cultural norm due to distance. I'm fortunate enough to be able to walk my kids to school here, but it's clear that the school's infra was not designed around cars and I feel bad for anyone just trying to get down the street during those periods.
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@vwbusguy I mean, I come from "Super Small Town" and I walked/rode bike/drove myself to school, pretty much from first grade->graduation, so it's not exactly apples-to-apples, but that was true of all the "in-town" kids, all the kids that lived outside of town, rode the bus, until they were able to drive themselves.
I doubt I saw more than a couple of parents picking up/dropping off their kids, the entire time I was in school.
Dunno, still doesn't make sense to me.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to SFaulken last edited by [email protected]
@sfalken Oh, that is definitely something that has shifted. We were in the "latchkey kids" generation where we were not only allowed but required to be outside and get ourselves around to places as kids. Because of publicity around kidnappings, drugs, gangs, etc, that's no longer the parenting/youth culture norm (for better or worse). Being left alone as much as many of us were as kids is now a marker of neglect.
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@vwbusguy Yeah, I guess it comes down to humans being crap at risk-assessment, the entire idea of "stranger abduction" or "stranger danger" isn't more prevalent any more now than it was when I was a kid, according to statistics, but the media do love to bang on that drum.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to SFaulken last edited by [email protected]
@sfalken Yeah, I lived in the LA area for over a decade. It's crazy how kidnapping like that still happens - very quickly, in public, in daylight, in a busy area. To be honest, witnessing stuff like that has made me a lot more careful about my kids' supervision. To be fair, part of it is that we got wiser to some very real risks as to what was happening.