Wow....didn’t realize that UT was a such a nanny state....that they had to actually pass a law to let kids do....what kids (at least here in TX) do....that is, walk to school, play outside, stay at home, alone, once they’re a responsible age....what we’ve been doing (in TX, anyway) for EVER!!
Isn’t that something??? Utah is going to be purple soon and then it is going to be blue in 5 years...things are changing fast here, people are moving in and the ‘Church’ isn’t going to be running things like they did, and since we have a woman Mayor of Salt Lake who is married to another woman, that was a big step for this State, and I expect to see a lot of different things happen soon...
It isn’t the State I left in 1989 and it isn’t the same State I came back to in 2012...
They’re doing it preemptively, Utah doesn’t have a problem with this. I don’t know where in Texas you live, but in my neck of the woods (near, but not in, Houston), I don’t see a lot of kids doing the things you mention. In fact, I think it’s almost embarrassing how many parents I see picking up their kids from middle school. They line up around the block. When I was a kid, the only time a parent would pick you up after school at that age was when you had a doctor’s appointment right after school.