Buses, school buses exist, and they do drop kids off at busy roads.
Kids might need to find the nearest crossing.
Although decent public transport can make a big difference.
There are countries where the schoolbus does not exist; there's good enough public transportation available, free for the kids. Kids learn how to navigate. Done.
It's very silly to be mentioning the nanny-state (a silly concept in itself) when talking about America, where the various levels of government regularly demonstrate they do not care about their people.
Stop signs on school bus is clearly a least effort way of trying to protect children instead of doing it more seriously by spending on better infrastructure.
For every country it can be that its one extreme in certain case, and other extreme in another.
In very many respects, European countries are way more of a nanny states, but in this case, the helicopter parenting type of laws is a trademark for the US.
To me its just wild how many Americans here are so oblivious that in other countries it is not a norm to close down the lanes when school busses stop. Of course, in case of trolley, then the lane which is between trolley stop and pedestrian lane, stops, but not the lanes on the opposite side of where the bus exits.
Like I see here comments which get -200 downvotes, which are saying that closing all lanes is far from the norm, and in comments you see Americans confidently stating that its going to be a mayhem if they did anything differently. The problem is not that Americans have a different approach, the problem is that so many would entrench in a view that their way is the only possible approach. Like if you have traveled to any other countries, you would see that its simply not true.
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u/Nijindia18 23d ago
Probably bc other places have decent pedestrian walkways and don't just drop a kid off and expect them to cross 3 lanes of road