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In my place (a large city in Europe) there is no parking for schools and only a handful of parents sometimes come with cars, presumably because they drive on to
by seszett 3y ago
In my place (a large city in Europe) there is no parking for schools and only a handful of parents sometimes come with cars, presumably because they drive on to their workplace afterwards. Most people by far come on foot, the rest with bicycles (in my case, for some reasons we didn't pick the school closest to us so it's about 5 minutes away by bike, 15 minutes by foot).
In my home country (more car-centric, but still in Europe) many cities now close the school streets to cars during drop off and pickup hours.
I'm thinking maybe your place has much fewer but larger schools, so people cannot simply come by foot to the school. It's economically more efficient, but I don't think it's better for the children.
- mwkaufma 3y agoIn our region of the US, charter schools have come in and fucked up the whole process so we can't even make those kinds of reasonable municipal policy choices.
- seszett 3y agoI think here in Belgium private schools are just a bit more common than public schools (56% private from a quick Google search) but I don't think they are very different. (although in my opinion the very existence of private schools is weird, as they're not that common where I come from). Why would they affect anything in particular? Here I think they are slightly fewer, so spaced further apart and larger than public schools, but not by a very much. They are not totally independent though (no schools are, even the really private ones that don't receive any subsidies, like the French school around here, they still have to teach mostly the same things as the others).