• foggy@lemmy.world
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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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      Who’s “them” and what is “the test”?

      You needed a licence to drive a bicycle?

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          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.