> These days...there's traffic backing up all around the school, every single kid arrives by car, the thingy where you can lock up your bikes is completely empt

> These days...there's traffic backing up all around the school, every single kid arrives by car, the thingy where you can lock up your bikes is completely empty. As a german this seems insane to me. For a long time I actually thought that driving the kids to the school was just something that is misrepresented in american media like films and tv shows. We went to school on our own, regardless of distance, either by public transport or by walking and biking.