I like this idea, unfortunately I don’t think I can trust everyone in the house with it quite yet!

I really like this idea! Will definitely use this!

Yes, that’s the problem. You should probably start by downloading the official raspberry pi imager and choosing a distro from there to install to the SD card.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

There are other ways to find images and plenty that aren’t available there but that’s the easiest way to get up and running. You’ll probably want to start with the default raspberry pi os and start experimenting with more customized os’s later.

I’m pretty sure we’re talking about going around South America if we’re talking about the Panama Canal…

In the school district that I live in (and where my kids attend school), elementary school starts earliest and middle/high school both start at roughly the same time.

I’ve found that this works really well since my youngest wakes up and is ready to go earliest anyways, I don’t have to adjust my schedule because they’re out of the house before I have to get to work and I would need after school care regardless. My older kids can more or less fend for themselves before school so I don’t need to worry about them while I get to work before they leave.

If elementary school started at 9 like high school and middle school I’d have to organize care for my youngest both before and after school since I’d be working at both times.