Those lights flash longer than school hours for a reason. Disabled kids take longer to get out and get home... special needs kids are often at school after hours, kids have music practice, detention, etc.. there's LOT'S of reasons why the lights continue to flash. The "I slow down when kids are about" argument doesn't hold water. Kids come from out of NOWHERE. They don't come across the recess field with a flashing light and a bullhorn announcing their intention to cross the street. Their little bodies are standing behind a tree or something waiting to dart out and chase a squirrel or a toy or a ball or whatever. If you're doing 40 and stand on the brakes, you'll kill the kid before you ever stop. Just slow the F down.

In MN there is ALWAYS a cop on both ends of most school zones. My radar detector screams like a banshee when I come close to one and we all file in like 20mph baby duckies. I go through one when I take a certain route to work and I clocked myself through it this morning. 93 seconds.

If the 40 seconds you save by speeding through there is worth the life of a child, you need to find another route!