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There's an even easier solution to that: IIRC elementary school kids are way more resistant to sleep deprivation than teenagers, so you can just flip the schedu
by saulrh 11y ago
There's an even easier solution to that: IIRC elementary school kids are way more resistant to sleep deprivation than teenagers, so you can just flip the schedules around and start elementary school kids before teenagers. Downside is probably then that the more-demanding elementary school kids get home earlier, but I think they're already getting home well before the working parent does.
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- dripton 11y agoOur school system does this. I haven't heard any complaints about it. (And we have a lot of entitled parents who complain about everything else.) I'm surprised that more schools aren't switching.
- jacalata 11y agoI've heard that the reason this isn't the default is that parents get far more upset about making an elementary school kid get up and wait for a bus in the dark than a teenager.
- Pingviini 11y agoMakes sense too, America is way too dangerous to have kids wait for buses in the dark. No doubt they would be kidnapped almost immediately.
- monocasa 11y agoCan't tell if sarcastic or not.
- saulrh 11y agoPoe's Law strikes again.
- jacalata 11y agoI understand the arguments are made about the danger of standing next to a road invisibly (especially in shitty places with no sidewalks) but I'm sure some people are worried about kidnapping!
- ams6110 11y agoHeard that argument here when the idea was discussed. The funny thing is that these days (at least for Elementary school) there's always a parent or two who walks their kid to the bus stop and waits with them until the bus comes.