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cwalton505 t1_ivylr13 wrote

Reply to comment by Beautiful_Repeat_718 in Eliminate Daylight Saving Time by Dramatic-Ad7828

Maybe kids shouldn't go to school so early for a variety of reasons and should be looked at as a separate issue.

I'd rather it not be dark at 4pm, and to relate it to school kids, there was no bus after basketball practice so I had to walk home in the pitch black at 5

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thread100 t1_ivynum4 wrote

And I don’t see kids walking to bus stops and school anymore in this area.

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cwalton505 t1_ivyo66e wrote

Yep... stop at every single house. Even next doors by 30 feet

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Beautiful_Repeat_718 t1_ivyzd8s wrote

I remember being a kid and my brothers and our upstairs neighbors had to walk a 1/4 down the road to the house of one girl whose house was designated the bus stop. I could never understand why she wasn't made to walk up to our apartment building instead of making 5 kids trudge down the side of the road to her house. Thinking back on it now though, her mom was a major Karen, so it makes sense.

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Beautiful_Repeat_718 t1_ivyya82 wrote

The start time for my 10 year old is 8:20am . She has to be on the bus at 6:45 because of the number of working parents who also start their work day at 8-9am. The bus system has to stop and pick up all these kids, which isn't a lot, but takes time to make the drive and all the stops.

People are also a lot more cautious in the evening than they are in the morning. I don't know how many mornings I drove to work at 5-6 am thinking "there's no one out right now", but I never had that thought once at 5-6 at night.

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