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School speed limits shouldn't exist
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this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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Definitely an unpopular opinion, so I'll give you the vote.
That said, of you can't be bothered to slow down to read the sign where kids can be, maybe you aren't ready to drive.
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I prefer this over "when school children are present".
Like I still don't know what that means. Is it during pickup/dropoff? Is it all day on school days? Is it only if I see a kid? Do they have school on certain holidays?
I guess I'd prefer a 'when flashing' light instead.
That's not what OP is saying.
They still want to slow down. That said you are correct that this means they wouldn't need to read the sign.
I agree, but in some states like where I live mow they have some weird school set ups. Speed limit is 55mph on the road if it isn't during school start/end. So while I think it'd be fine if people went 20 there all the time, there would likely be a lot of backlash from people saying 'i could to 60 there every day for the last 20 years on my way to and from work (it leads to a major interstate) and now you want me to go 20!
Honestly it is just a poor setup for the school. Should have built a road around the back where you directed all the traffic
You know, I was about to say that we should go back to no school zones like in the 80s since the speed limit was always just 30 around school zones anyway and people had to slow anyway when school let out because of all the traffic.
And I was wondering why school zones were created in the first place since there was no problem to fix. But now I remember that schools were once always in residential areas. But with school zones today, they can stick them on airport runways if they want to.
Yeah here it's like "how do we find 1000 kids and get them fastest to a place". (Not that I know how many kids they actually have now, my spouse said she had less than 100 in her graduating classes for elementary school, so that's not drop outs like in highschool).
Life is different everywhere. I saw a video of kids the traveling 2 hours of sketchy fall in bridges to get to a school in another country, and all I could think was, my father would say "all Hispanics are lazy, and no black parents know how to raise kids". Granted this is the same guy that went on a drunken rant about hating Jews back in ~2008.. but he was doing so well for awhile, actually voted for Obama once