The State of School Drop-Offs
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Listen to Support it, WNYC and will end today with a call in for parents of school-aged children on this two-part question. |
| 0:26.4 | And it's kind of related to the climate story of the week. |
| 0:29.6 | Good follow-up on that in a way. |
| 0:31.6 | Are you driving your kids to school in your car more than you did in the past |
| 0:37.8 | and has dropping your kids off at school and picking them up from school gotten more chaotic. |
| 0:43.0 | 212, 433, WNYC, 212 433, 9692, give us call. |
| 0:51.6 | Are you driving your kids to school in your car more than you did in the past |
| 0:56.2 | and has dropping your kids off at school and picking them up from school gotten more chaotic? |
| 1:01.2 | 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9692. |
| 1:09.8 | Why do we ask? |
| 1:10.5 | Well, one of the things that sparked our idea for this conversation is a new piece in the Atlantic by the writer Kendra Hurley writes, stop by an elementary school mid-morning and you're likely to find |
| 1:26.3 | a sight of relative calm. Come at drop-off though and you'll probably see a very different picture. |
| 1:31.6 | The school perimeters thickening with jigsaw layers |
| 1:35.2 | of sedans, minivans, and SUVs. |
| 1:38.8 | The reason, well it might be, as the writer posits, that more parents than ever in America drive their kids to school, |
| 1:46.4 | making the school car line a massive ordeal. |
| 1:49.6 | Does this resonate with you? |
| 1:50.7 | What's your experience of the school drop-off line and has it changed? with you |
| 1:55.0 | what's your experience of the school drop-off line and has it changed in recent years? |
| 1:56.0 | Did the pandemic or anything else make you change |
| 2:00.0 | from your kids walking to school or taking the school bus or taking mass transit |
| 2:06.7 | to you driving them there. |
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