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School districts are pressured by parents with jobs to make the school day start early, so that parents and kids can leave the house at the same time in the mor

• bonoboTP 7y ago
  Of course, because kids are so dependent on parents. Everything is interrelated. This just wouldn't be a problem in most places in Europe, because kids can take public transportation or walk.
  • liability 7y ago
    Typically in America, school districts operate buses that are available for any student not in walking distance. Children could (and sometimes do) catch those buses after their parents have already left for work, but many parents don't trust their children with that degree of autonomy.
    • bonoboTP 7y ago
      > but many parents don't trust their children with that degree of autonomy But I guess it would appear in the school records if they didn't go to school. At least in Hungary the state takes away certain benefits if the kid regularly doesn't go to school and it can also have other consequences as well, like having to repeat the year. But to some degree it should also be part of growing up. When we were 15-16 and all of us commuted by public transportation, a few times we skipped the first class and went to a pub instead. And I didn't become some lowlife gangster, I completed a CS degree with good results.
      • liability 7y ago
        When I was in elementary school I was regularly getting on the school bus by myself long after my parents left for work (at that time my mother wasn't a teacher). It worked fine for me and for plenty of other families. Parental attitudes changed more than anything else. Coddle kids longer, trust them less. That seems to be the current trend.