It’s always money.

When I first moved to the town I live in now, I was impressed by the all new schools. However I eventually realized they replaced a bunch of older neighborhood schools with a smaller number of bigger schools. They saved money by providing a worse educational experience and making walking less likely.

We walked to my kids elementary school but the town saved money by not plowing the sidewalks in winter, nor forcing residents to. Our walk would require walking on a major street - until my ex went full Karen and made them plow

When my kids got to middle school, we were in “walking” distance so there was no bus. However that was a full mile including crossing a six lane road whose light was always broken, and they didn’t spring for a crossing guard . We ended up choosing a private school in a different town, so there were no buses nor walkability

Regional school districts are now common. More kids goto schools that are not even in their towns

How do you envision kids being picked up after school? Free for all?

Edit: yes I'm doubling down, the people in the replies are idiots.

Obviously walking, biking, or taking the bus is better. Let's assume that covers 95% of children 95% of the time.

Now what?

I was asking what to do WITH CARS that are picking up kids REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT ANOTHER KID MIGHT TKAE THE BUS

But he's got YUUGGGEEEE balls! You can see them in the back hanging from the trailer hitch.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/38238/ram-2500-drivers-have-the-most-duis-more-than-twice-the-national-average-report

This month.

Saw this description of kid rock and it seems like it applies here too. He's got tattoos of his kids but not custody.

Welp, there's my cursed upvote of the day.

I need an adult

Absolutely nothing!

I hear scientists have made it so two xy people can make a baby now and mpreg is gonna be real.

Uv rays don't care about clouds

It's a bunch of stressed, impatient parents who just want to grab their kid and get out, but are apathetic to everyone else trying to do the same. If all these other people weren't here they could do this so fast, why won't everyone get out of their way? It's a highly concentrated dose of the "Im gonna get mine and the rest of you can fuck right off" mentality. And, like most shitty driving behaviors, it feeds into itself. It makes good drivers make bad decisions because, if they don't, they're not going anywhere. "No one is letting me in, so if I dont cut someone off, I'm going to be stuck here another 15 minutes" type shit. I dont know why well-built pickup and drop-off areas aren't required for building schools past 1990, but here we are.

That car is also very likely to make a kid never grow up in yet another way.