"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
09/19/2016 at 16:32 • Filed to: None
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"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
09/19/2016 at 16:32 • Filed to: None | 1
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Because of the mess out here ‘err day:
Too many parents/guardians in the AM bustin’ U-turns, parking in the drop off zones and chillin’, mixing it up with the buses, and walking up to school with their kids cutting through the lines of cars dropping off instead of using the safely marked crosswalks.
I e-mailed the principal last week and he suggested joining a PTG meeting, the first of which just HAPPENS to be tonight.
All I ask is they put out cones to direct traffic, and notify the drivers how to navigate the lot like a human being.
I hate adulting.
Future next gen S2000 owner
> Takuro Spirit
09/19/2016 at 16:45 |
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Just be a DINK and sell those kids! No school drop-off worries ever again!
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Takuro Spirit
> Future next gen S2000 owner
09/19/2016 at 16:52 |
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You buyin?
FKA-RacecaR
> Takuro Spirit
09/19/2016 at 16:53 |
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I think some adults completely lose their logical and rational thinking abilities when it comes to dropping kids off at school. When I drop off my youngest, it is almost always a mess. Even the teachers are out there messing things up by telling people where to go, when they shouldn’t be moving at all!
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Takuro Spirit
> FKA-RacecaR
09/19/2016 at 16:57 |
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One of the major problems is there IS no teacher telling anyone where to go. At my other daughter’s school there’s always someone out there, clearly laid out lanes via cone placement, and its In And Out, Easy Peasy.
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Future next gen S2000 owner
> Takuro Spirit
09/19/2016 at 17:11 |
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Sold mine. I’m not buying any new ones.
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Takuro Spirit
> Future next gen S2000 owner
09/19/2016 at 17:15 |
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They’re used.
Klaus Schmoll
> Takuro Spirit
09/19/2016 at 17:16 |
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Funny, just had the first parent-teacher conference of the school year.
But on a more related note. There’s a kindergarten close to where my parents live. The parents there seem to get into the parking lot, turn the engine off and simply stop at the point where rolling resistance wins. At this point I would suggest a drive-in window where you can hand your kid over. These kindegarten kids are still pretty small, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
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Takuro Spirit
> Klaus Schmoll
09/19/2016 at 17:21 |
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I might suggest a low speed padded loading/offloading area.... TUCK AND ROLL, JUNIOR.
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Klaus Schmoll
> Takuro Spirit
09/19/2016 at 17:23 |
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With slides that start in the first floor so that they can be shot back through the sliding door at pickup? I like your thinking!
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Future next gen S2000 owner
> Takuro Spirit
09/19/2016 at 17:27 |
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They would be new to me, though, and that is what counts.
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Takuro Spirit
> Future next gen S2000 owner
09/19/2016 at 17:28 |
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They’re pretty well trained. Very self reliant. Only one time did they try to make grilled cheese in the toaster.
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Future next gen S2000 owner
> Takuro Spirit
09/19/2016 at 17:32 |
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Still, lots of maintenance and up keep. I’d be sinking money into them more often than I do with the boat.
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Takuro Spirit
> Klaus Schmoll
09/19/2016 at 17:34 |
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I was thinking more along the lines of jumping in like in the A-Team
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Takuro Spirit
> Future next gen S2000 owner
09/19/2016 at 17:35 |
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Oh yeah, the cost of ownership. I forgot.
Funktheduck
> Takuro Spirit
09/19/2016 at 18:56 |
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The problem is too many damn people dropping off/picking up their kids. The schools provide busses for a reason.
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Takuro Spirit
> Funktheduck
09/19/2016 at 21:47 |
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Here in the ‘burbs if you’re within a certain radius of the school (like we are) they charge for busing. I can see why a lot of kids get rides, and bike and walk to school.... but when it rains, compound the buses, the regular riders, and the kids that walk and bike now being driven. And low visibility. And the rush to get out of the car and to school without getting wet.
Its nuts.
But hey, I wasn’t the only one at the meeting with an issue. We’re starting a committee to help the pickup/drop off, and I get to help design the map and instructions for the lot.
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Funktheduck
> Takuro Spirit
09/19/2016 at 22:22 |
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That makes sense then. Around here they don’t supply busses if you’re under 1 mile from the school. When I was a kid those kids would walk or catch rides if the weather was bad.
Now it seems like half the parents pick up their kids from school. Massive traffic issues around during school start/end times. Some even had extra lanes paved so people stopped out in the street wouldn’t block traffic as much.
I’m not sure if it’s an image thing where people don’t want to be seen as not involved enough/wealthy enough to pick up kids instead of riding the bus, more after school stuff that can’t wait for a bus (doubtful for the little ones), or if it’s parents being helicopter tiger things (I don’t know what the saying is) and not allowing poor sally/Timmy any autonomy