I was a latchkey kid with undiagnosed ADHD. I didn't know how to read a clock face but was expected to know when to leave for school on foot in a timely fashion anyhow. I kept all my school books in my backpack at all times regardless of what subjects I had that day because if I took them out at home, they would never make it to school again. I never did my homework unpromptedly, voluntarily or independently at home, not even once. I have no idea how many times I lost my house keys before I decided that my parents would be mad if I asked for new ones again so I just learned how to get by without them. If I forgot to leave the backdoor unlocked, I'd just have to sit outside for hours until someone else came home.
I'm not going to finish this with some boomer bullshit "kids today have it too easy" -take. I don't even know any kids, I have no idea how things are like for them these days. I think being a child just universally sucks.
There's always that one thing that makes your life absolutely miserable when you're a child
Me and my brother were the original latch-key kids.... when they were actual neighborhood elementary schools...we actually went home as young as me in Kindergarten....and we did not have to have crossing guard... because we literally lived next door to the school! 💯🇺🇲🏳️🌈🍷
When I was less than 11 I used to walk to a school that was 1 km from home. It just occurred to me that there was a school 100 metres from our house. Like their school bell was audible to our back yard. I can't think of any logical reason why me and my sister were put into a school literally ten times further from home.
Prolly gerrymandering
They don't do that in Finland. As far as I'm aware, you can sign your kids up to whatever school is the most convenient to you.
I believe in Finland you're automatically granted a placement in the closest school to you - with some wiggle room for language requirements (Swedish vs Finnish speaking schools based on the kid's first language), weighted education (usually for arts subjects like music, I would also classify Steiner schools here, and specialised language immersion classes), and also special needs (developmental disabilities were the most prevalent group in my school over 20 years ago, but there are also schools that have classes in Finnish Sign Language). I have heard of mixed school classes of religious studies for Muslim students because not one school had enough students for a full class or there wasn't a teacher available at the student's specific school.
My physically closest school was a Swedish language school, so I went a bit further to a Finnish language school because as a Finnish speaker, I had been zoned there.
Dunno what homunculus' case was but those listed above are the most common that affect your school placement in Finland that I know off the top of my head.
Considering that none of the above apply, and that they would've had to go out of their way to make our lives more inconvenient, the mystery continues. Considering that I haven't spoken to my mother for almost three years now, contacting her to ask this wouldn't be worth it, so I guess we'll never know.
Though I feel like her answer would be something along the lines of "you never asked!", like she would naturally assume that it was her children's job to look at all the available school options and to request for better alternatives, as if the thought of doing so would have even occurred to a six-year-old.
Se menee oppilaaksiottoalueen mukaan et mihin peruskouluun päätyy
"Oppilaan kotiosoitteen perusteella määräytyy oppilaaksiottoalue, johon oppilas kuuluu ja josta lähikoulu hänelle osoitetaan. Lähikouluksi ei aina voida osoittaa maantieteellisesti lähintä koulua, vaan osoitetun lähikoulun määrittelemisessä huomioidaan lyhyen ja turvallisen koulumatkan lisäksi koulun tilat ja resurssit sekä ryhmien koot ja kokoonpanot." (lahti.fi/kasvatus-ja-koulutus/perusopetus/kouluun-ilmoittautuminen-ja-hakeminen/oppilaaksiotto/)
Jaajaa, täähän avaa. Kerkesin jo miettiä että hetkinen mitä vittua.
@thatlittledandere miten ne vyöhykkeet sit menee jos kävelin joka aamu ohi siitä toisesta koulusta? Niinku yksinkertaistettu kartta lapsuusmuistoista:
Olen tilastotieteilijän-alku ja kerran pääsin kattomaan noita ja ne on piirretly ihan päin helvettiä taviksen silmin (tilastona tiedän hiukan miksi ne ei oo ihan kakaa, mutta ei liity tähän niin oleellisesti että jaksaisin selittää ). Mutta raja voinut mennä esim noin:
