I've posted this before, but first bell was at 7:18, bus was at 6:30. I had it luckier in that I lived ~1 mile from school, but lived in an area where you couldn't safely walk. There were students that lived ~15 miles from school whose buses arrived ~5:45 to be able to make the 7:18 bell.
Came to post. Teenagers aren't the totally irrational monsters television/media makes them out to me, necessarily. As one could guess, they're very much a reflection of their parents' investment in their emotional health and growth.
Purely anecdotally, none of the children I've been around that had thoughtful/respectful/logical parents have gone through the mindless rebellion phase - they've all been very level headed reasonable people in their teens. On the flipside, all of the children of mindless authoritarian parents have gone kinda wild pretty much as soon as they developed the agency to do so. It's kind of sad that (at least in the US) we've painted teenagers as some kind of psychotic monster that needs tamed.
I feel like for any company, there should probably be a balance between old a new. If all of the technology from 10 years ago was inarguably "the best", I don't think we'd be in the situation we're in now. Everything is pros and cons.
My team right now, for example, had a mantra of "No JS frameworks, just Rails" which was absolutely dreadful. Rails UI is absolutely dreadful. I can't say enough, it is absolutely dreadful. So we recently made the move to use React for more "dynamic" UIs, which has brought up somewhat of a happy medium? React will be here in 5 years, Rails will be here in 5 years, everyone wins.
> but lived in an area where you couldn't safely walk.
It was 1 mile on a four lane heavy traffic road with no sidewalks.