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I'm in complete agreement, but 13 year olds cannot secure their own transportation. Most school districts I've lived in seem designed to ensure parents drive t
by silisili 5y ago
I'm in complete agreement, but 13 year olds cannot secure their own transportation.
Most school districts I've lived in seem designed to ensure parents drive their kids to school.
As an example, my current district won't offer a bus unless you live more than 3 miles away. 3 miles is a giant distant to walk every morning. Luckily, we live about a half mile away and she bikes to school. I wouldn't let her bike 3 miles, because it would mean crossing multiple highways.
- katbyte 5y agothat is a failing of the school district not the parent...
- poulsbohemian 5y agoI’m not really disagreeing with you, though I will note in our district, parents who are willing to advocate for transportation options get a better result than parent who just go along. There’s a dirty little secret across the country where districts have limited bus options in order to save money (and due to driver shortages). So I’d you don’t demand that they make a bus stop near your house for your kid, they may just overlook you. I thought it wa s just my district until I did a little reading.
- silisili 5y agoTrue. If anything it's a failing of civil engineering though, I guess. My area is nothing but subdivisions connected by high speed hiways.
- blitzar 5y agoAhh the american dream.
- brnt 5y ago> but 13 year olds cannot secure their own transportation. Pretty much everyone here bikes to work at that age. Even if its 20km through wind and rain. On top of that, being dropped off by mommy and daddy does not impress your fellow students!
- watwut 5y agoOver two hours of biking in rain every day sounds like quite a lot to be honest. And I definitely would not want my kid to drive 40km a day in snow or on icy road. Even if split into two 20km segments. I had 10km from home to university. I would definitely not want to do double that amount everyday. Even as I was in shape at the time, doing it on bike everyday would be severely unappealing. It would probably also meant that biking has to be the only sport I do.
- brnt 5y agoBiking isn't a sport. That's the root of the normality of the above situation.
- watwut 5y agoBiking 40km a day does amount to sport. Walking is not sport either, but hiking 8 hours a day amount to one too. If nothing else, both take huge amount of time. If you go those 40km slowly (or environment prevents it), you are looking at very long commute. If you go them fast, then you cant claim it is not a sport.
- brnt 5y agoMaybe, but you'll find that the first thing that needs to go if you're serious about bike-centred commuting is the idea that it is a sport. It's not, just like how commuting by car isn't a rally.
- sokoloff 5y agoIt’s common in Europe to use the word “sport” as Americans would use the word “exercise”.
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- quartesixte 5y agoGenuine question: where do you live where biking 20km to get to work is a norm?
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