School Day Dilemma

My morning commute is usually a tolerable 10-15 minutes across town, but recently things have changed. It seems like no matter which route I take I end up in school traffic. Every main street seems to have at least one school on it. The 20mph school zones are killing me! I was trying to remember how I dealt with this dilemma in previous months then I realized, the last time school was in session I was going to work around 9:00/9:30am therefore missing all the little kiddies skipping off to learn their ABC's. Now that I am going in around 8:00/8:30 I guess I am going to have to deal with all of the backpack-wielding youngsters. More time to catch up on my NPR news I suppose.