Unpopular opinion: schools are far too accommodating to car-driving parents. They ought to just flat-out prohibit dropping off/picking up by car except with a permit that’s only granted for carpools or in exceptional circumstances.
I live not more than 200 yards from where my kid goes to school. We walk her to and from school. The number of parents I see driving that distance is absolutely ridiculous. It’s a neighborhood school, so everyone lives within a mile or two. We all should be walking. But yeah, the school accommodates by having pickup lines and parking for all the damn cars. People will drive less than mile, park, then drive back home. It’s like ingrained to only drive.
Are there really school systems that refuse to fund buses for students outside walking distance (I mean real walking distance, not lazy fatass walking distance – i.e. more than a mile or so from the school)? My local elementary school zoned such that probably at least half the students are within walking distance and has a couple of bus routes serving the rest, but has a huge line of parent drop-off/pick-up traffic anyway.
School systems? No, they would probably fund buses in a heartbeat. It’s local municipalities and state governments. I hereby curse you with knowledge of Ohio
<Looking around at my frugal lifestyle> Honestly? Yeah, kinda!
I don’t want them to get bullied for not having trendy shoes or something like that, obviously, but I’m hoping to instill in them the right values and attitudes to be the kids who are perceived as cool for bucking the trend instead of conforming to it.
Unpopular opinion: schools are far too accommodating to car-driving parents. They ought to just flat-out prohibit dropping off/picking up by car except with a permit that’s only granted for carpools or in exceptional circumstances.
I live not more than 200 yards from where my kid goes to school. We walk her to and from school. The number of parents I see driving that distance is absolutely ridiculous. It’s a neighborhood school, so everyone lives within a mile or two. We all should be walking. But yeah, the school accommodates by having pickup lines and parking for all the damn cars. People will drive less than mile, park, then drive back home. It’s like ingrained to only drive.
But then we’d have to provide funding for buses, and that would mean raising property taxes, which we can never ever do
Are there really school systems that refuse to fund buses for students outside walking distance (I mean real walking distance, not lazy fatass walking distance – i.e. more than a mile or so from the school)? My local elementary school zoned such that probably at least half the students are within walking distance and has a couple of bus routes serving the rest, but has a huge line of parent drop-off/pick-up traffic anyway.
School systems? No, they would probably fund buses in a heartbeat. It’s local municipalities and state governments. I hereby curse you with knowledge of Ohio
Aw, fuck.
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<Looking around at my frugal lifestyle> Honestly? Yeah, kinda!
I don’t want them to get bullied for not having trendy shoes or something like that, obviously, but I’m hoping to instill in them the right values and attitudes to be the kids who are perceived as cool for bucking the trend instead of conforming to it.
See also: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/03/07/frugality-the-new-fanciness/
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