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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • We walk our kids to school pretty much every day, and I 100% agree.

    Almost exactly three years ago, at a school about four miles away from ours, a driver killed a seven-year-old girl on her way home from school, and the very next morning a driver ignored the signal and cut me off as I was trying to walk my own kids across the street. In the next couple of months, a city ordinance meant to improve pedestrian safety was shot down by the state because it was “anti-car.” Since then, any efforts at traffic calming around schools has been slow-rolled and ignored at pretty much every opportunity. Car dismissal is prioritized at our kids’ school (we’ve actively had to go inside and pluck our kids out of the car line at the beginning of every school year so far because they don’t pay attention), bus dismissal gets second place, and this is the first year that the crossing guard has been there every day.

    Literally the only positive thing that we’ve seen around our school is that they’ve reduced the road from two (very thin) lanes in each direction to only one; that has helped tremendously, but even just this morning a driver who wasn’t paying attention almost hit the crossing guard as we were about to step out into the street.

    I am shaking with rage even thinking about it right now. The situation is dire out there, and our elected officials are doing worse than nothing. Our school administrators are making it worse.

    Talk about radicalizing. I want to start slashing tires.