Re:The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment
by lvl155 on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:21PM
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There aren’t many places in the US where it is safe AND practical for kids to walk home. If you don’t understand this, then you basically live in a bubble.
Re:The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment
by Aurornis on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:24PM
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> There aren’t many places in the US where it is safe AND practical for kids to walk home.
Discussing the practicality aspect is literally the point of the article.
Above I was addressing your arguments about danger and kidnappers.
Re:The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment
by bdangubic on Saturday March 15, 2025 @07:48PM
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this is simply not true. I personally am in 12th town I’ve lived in the last 25 years, every single place I lived was walkable to school. it might just be you that lives in a bubble :)
The article is literally about how location effects are driving the changes.
> Pick one. If you knew the statistics on kidnapping in the US, you would not think of this as a “life-style” choice.
Child abduction is extremely rare in the United States.
You might be confusing sensational headlines with statistics. It's common to report missing children or parental disputes as kidnapping, which people conflate with children being abducted off the street
Here's an article about it with some real statistics from the FBI: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-missinggirl-dat...
For some perspective: The number of children abducted by strangers in the United States every year is similar to the number of children who die from head injuries from riding a bike: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8909479/
More people in the United States die from lightning strikes every year.