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Homie I'm a millennial and I was able to ride my bike to school in the 2nd grade. Just needed to show them I had a helmet and knew my hand signals. I didn't know my hand signals but my mom told me before I went to take the test.
This probably even mortifies older Gen Z folk.
Yeah I'm on the cusp between Millennial/Gen Z; I think I was about nine when I started walking around my small town unsupervised for trips to the grocery store or public library. Might have even started walking myself to school younger than that.
I biked to school and walked over a train bridge to do it in the 2nd grade, 1992.
I walked to and from school starting in kindergarten. Solidly a millennial. My parents both worked and we didn't have bus stops unless you were out of town.
Who's "them" and what is "the test"?
You needed a licence to drive a bicycle?
School.
Hand signals.
No. Permission.
Schools are in loco parentis , and designate how to handle things mime these.
With a term like that, it's not weird to link Wikipedia, but I actually would've understood it without it as well.
But here in Finland schools aren't in loco parentis for the trip to and from school. Only while school's in. That's why for instance schools here couldn't sanction pupils for fighting on the way home.
This mortifies europeans of every generation. In Scandinavia you can leave your pram unsupervised outside a café so your child can sleep well in the cool fresh air while you get a coffee and talk to the other parents doing the same. European schoolchildren walk or bike to school from first grade onwards and they can take public transportation all on their own. Our playgrounds would be deemed suicidal by modern american parents and they would freak out knowing children learn to whittle with sharp knives in a waldkindergarten.
I really don't know how americans can still believe to be the freest nation when the only freedom index they are not completely outclassed by european nations is the economic freedom index.
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