The good news is that there are fewer teenage drivers on the road these days. The bad news is that the culture that has given us fewer teenage drivers is a disordered culture of screen addiction, safety obsession, and helicopter parenting.
“Be not conformed to this age,” St. Paul warned the Romans, implying that Christians ought to fit a bit uncomfortably in this world. This discord shines forth brilliantly in office breakrooms across America on Ash Wednesday every year as someone inevitably brings in a king cake and invites colleagues to join in consuming it.
Air raid sirens and the threat of Russian missiles may not create the best environment for schooling, but it apparently is better than going to public school in San Francisco.