And I thought Americans were carbrained, holy shit.
(To be fair, he’s not wrong in that this is intended to keep the auto companies and the government nice and fat – but the obvious response to this is to agitate for better public transit, not railing against an environmentally sound policy.)
A 5-8kg school bag is insane. What the hell is going on there? Where I live, it’s only 2kg.
Lucky you. I think school bags in many countries, even developed ones are at an abuse level. When I was 12 my bag often weighed 10kg+, no lockers. I had hoped the situation had improved until I spoke to my 20 years younger cousin, it’s still the same shit. I believe it is probably a major contributing factor to scoliosis and kyphosis for children and teenagers, but still it persists
No lockers? So you had to drag your books to school every day? That is child abuse. I didn’t have lockers and neither do my kids but we have cubbies to dump everything in. Only things that went in our bags was lunch, water and homework.