You made some excellent points, Sean, and I agree with all of them. I have only one response to your list, and it is specifically to this paragraph:

“We are taught from an early age to be on time. We got marked up in school for tardiness, put in timeout, made an example of. But people still don’t learn. Those late kids grow up to become late adults who get fired for being late.”

I spent 34 years as a public school teacher, so I certainly had my share of encounters with late students. That being said, though, I was able to learn that most of the time, the child’s being late was the fault of a chronically dysfunctional family dynamic over which the poor child had no control. In most cases, keeping track of the child’s lateness was really keeping tabs on the family’s lateness.