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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just volunteered for my son’s Spanish party at the middle school, as his teacher asked for parents to assist with set-up, serving food, and clean-up. This was during the second-to-last period of the day.

When I got to my car, a full HOUR ahead of the final dismissal bell, what do I see? A line of cars at least 20 deep, already forming the school pick-up line.

Are you people insane? Do you have nothing better to do with your time? Do you hate comfort? If your kids can’t walk home from school, you know they have buses, right? There’s buses for that. Are you seriously so afraid that Little Spencer or Brayden Jaymes or Lindseigh Grayson can’t handle the bus?

Is this seriously what you do with your time? You send your kid to school to learn about climate change, while you sit there burning fossil fuels and emitting pollution for a FULL HOUR? What is wrong with you?[/quote]

I thought this was elementary school thing for parents to set up for parties, middle schoolers tend to dislike having parents at parties and rather do it themselves with their teachers.

As far as parents in carpool lane, there are several reasons for parents to do that. They coordinate it with picking kids on their way from work to home, with elementary school sibling pick up, doctor/dentist appointments, holiday shopping trips, afterschool activities etc.

Many are taking work/social calls from the car or other ways to multitask while waiting because going home and coming back would take as mucch time but add extra stress.

Middle and high school car rides are crucial time together for parent-kid bonding. Everyone should make the most of this.

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So why not just stay at work and do your work until dismissal? Or work in a I don’t get how waiting in your car for an hour is helpful. If school get out at 3, your options are to arrive at 2, wait and hour, leave at 3:05. Or, arrive at 3:05 and leave at 3:10. You are buying yourself maybe 5-10 extra min tops by sitting there an hour.  Is that really necessary?[/quote]

I am not the PP you replied to but I posted above that I leave after work.  I have a job that has a component that is patient interaction and a component that is paperwork.  In the clinic it’s almost impossible to get paperwork done because there is too much going on.  But my car is silent, and I can be super productive, whether it’s paperwork or work calls or I’m doing something for my family like paying bills or putting together an online grocery order.[/quote]

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