europeans don't grasp exactly how long the american school day is and exactly how much of their lives young people spend being herded around from class to class like cattle
and the early start times do actually matter when you consider that transportation in the states is a mess and a 7am start time requires a lot of kids to be out the door by 5
sorry exhausted children wanna wear smth comfortable in the place they spend the majority of their time? most kids begin their commute at least an hour before school and have to roll out of bed even earlier
that's even earlier if they have siblings at other schools
the whole hostility towards masking stuff has created this weird culture where people are even less considerate in their public posture now than before surviving a pandemic, bc why won't people even cough into their elbow anymore