Good idea returns — walk to school

Good idea returns — walk to school
Submitted by Ariana Fine on Wed, 06/04/2014 - 12:27am
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
San Angelo Standard Times

If this were the 1950s or earlier, this latest development in transporting kids to school would be regarded as a huge joke — walking.

This being the 20-teens, the revival of an idea that’s as old as school, indeed as old as feet, has been gussied up with fresh jargon — “the walking school bus.” The idea is that, under parental supervision, pupils within reasonable walking distance to their elementary school walk as a group, starting at the most distant house and picking up their classmates as they go.

Like many ideas that have the fatal disadvantage of being old one, the walking school bus makes all kinds of sense. They are under the watchful eyes of adults they presumably already know — and just as importantly know their parents.

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Permalink Reply by Robert. B. Vellani, PhD on June 21, 2014 at 9:34am

After six years of a 90+ minute train bus - commute from Manhattan to the Throggs Neck area of the Bronx, I now live within a 20 minute walk or 12 minute bike ride to work. (Yes, dear Reader, I  noted your gasps and moans and envy.)

When I bike to school, I am fully awake, fully oxygenated, and fully aware when I arrive.

Certainly we all know when we arrive at school with the early bird students, that they have rolled from a bed, to a car, to a spot on the hallway floor or cafeteria chair, and then to a classroom seat. 

Has our culture of fear made it impossible for the neighborhood kids to walk or bike themselves to school?

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