"...A delayed school start could also mean adults with inflexible work schedules are late for work."
In my view, the whole school system largely appears to be a way to safely contain our kids, while we're working hard in the offices or elsewhere. So traditional inflexibility of office working arrangements (opening times often tied to other points of economy, like store or market hours) reflects onto the school starting times. This is especially exacerbated by work commute times.
I was once shocked to learn that some suburbian colleagues had to wake up before 5am in order to be ready in the downtown office by 8am; yep, they would drop off their kids at school too before taking train to the city, that is the kids would start before 8am or at least go for an early drop-off, either way being already awake.
Perhaps the remote work could make this more bearable but most of working parents would rather keep the established school starting hours as being fitting "ok". As for the kids, they just learn to dread the start of another school day and clockwatching it till the end.
It's exactly this, most office jobs, whether we like it or not, are 9-5. Parents need to be around to see their kids to the bus or in many cases drop them off themselves.
I'm not surprised that the top commment of an HN thread is blaming sports though...
"...A delayed school start could also mean adults with inflexible work schedules are late for work."
In my view, the whole school system largely appears to be a way to safely contain our kids, while we're working hard in the offices or elsewhere. So traditional inflexibility of office working arrangements (opening times often tied to other points of economy, like store or market hours) reflects onto the school starting times. This is especially exacerbated by work commute times.
I was once shocked to learn that some suburbian colleagues had to wake up before 5am in order to be ready in the downtown office by 8am; yep, they would drop off their kids at school too before taking train to the city, that is the kids would start before 8am or at least go for an early drop-off, either way being already awake.
Perhaps the remote work could make this more bearable but most of working parents would rather keep the established school starting hours as being fitting "ok". As for the kids, they just learn to dread the start of another school day and clockwatching it till the end.