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> No, the bus is not always an option, nor is leaving your kid alone at home for any amount of time.

This bill applies to middle and high school kids. If you can't leave your high schooler home alone for any amount of time then you probably have bigger problems to deal with than school start time.

Many schools have programs to drop your kids off early. The same program is there to keep kids late. If kids are getting out of school at 2:00 pm then the kids are either home alone or taking a bus one way or the other. In my opinion, this has very little to do with parents.

Given that this will be a job-negotiating concern of literally every parent in California, businesses will just have to adapt to the new normal.

It's the lower-class parents who can't afford babysitters or who might be divorced that will be the most affected by this. Coincidentally, it's those same parents who have the least room to negotiate in their positions.