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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can she go inside the school 20 minutes early? She won't be standing outside? Then take her. She can learn to use those 20 minutes to check assignments, get some things done, drop off books at the library, get in an extra 20 minutes studying before a test that day, or whatever.

I figure she is balking at having to get up, get ready and go out the door earlier. Is that the case? It's not fun or easy for high schoolers, who really do need their sleep, but I would not spend the money on an Uber or cab.

Re: Uber, do an online search on anything like "Uber driver crime" and you will find many, many cases around the country of Uber drivers committing assault on passengers or having other criminal issues. Uber tries to say they've improved security and background checks etc. but I would not put my teen in one. Somehow Uber-lovers manage to say over and over how "my kid takes it and it's fine" or use the argument that "all the teens at my kid's school do it" but that doesn't wash with me. It's still putting your kid into a car with a total stranger who has had less background checking than most cabbies have to get. Maybe if you're determined not to drive your kid, you can find one driver (maybe a woman driver, as a PP noted) who will do the ride every single day, and be effectively your chauffeur with whom you can form a relationship. But really, I'd tell my own DD in this case that she had a good opportunity to be ready for the school day and have extra study time etc. and nope, I wasn't sinking money into a daily driver other than me.

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And most crime is committed by people the victim knows. We’ve completely lost our ability as a society to assess risk. We read a Facebook anecdote about some girl 600 miles away who was assaaulted by uber driver and freak out. Or we hear that someone once assualted a kid in the bathroom, so we can’t let our kids go to the washroom alone. The biggest risks come from people connected to the family or people kids meet online. [/quote]

Well, if getting to school 20 minutes early is dangerous for a HS kid then there are an awful lot of HS kids living in danger.  Many, many kids get to school 15/20 minutes early.  [/quote]

PP here [b]- I think it’s crazy to pay for a ride so the daughter doesn’t get to school 20 minutes early,[/b] but it’s about the cost and the daughter’s apparent inflexibility. I am separately pushing back against the idea that riding in an uber is intolerable dangerous. Statistically speaking, a high school girl is much more likely to be the victim of a boyfriend, classmate, teacher, or family friend than an Uber driver. I see our inability to properly assess risk as one of society’s biggest problems. [/quote]

Eh, she'll have time to go to her locker, time to visit a teacher to clarify a homework problem that she had trouble with, she'll have time to go to the ladies room before school starts.  She'll do o.k.  The uber driver would likely get her there 10 minutes early anyway.[/quote]

Reading is a lost art. [/quote]

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No.  The idea that she would be somehow safer in an Uber than getting to school early is silly.  She actually knows the people at the school, the Uber driver could be anyone.  It has been pointed out in other threads that Uber driver's don't have the same sort of background checks as taxi cab drivers do and even their vehicles aren't checked for safety like taxi cabs are.  Even if you think that the driver is awesome, their vehicle may not be properly maintained.  Maybe their driving record is less than stellar (would Uber know?).

You definitely, in my mind, are assuming an amount of risk getting into an Uber.  And it would be an unnecessary risk if the point of the Uber is to avoid getting getting to school a handful of minutes earlier than you want to get there.[/quote]

You might try reading it again. [/quote]

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