Why aren’t your kids walking to school?


Why aren’t your kids walking to school?

By The Editorial Board 
The Globe and Mail
4 min



If you’re old enough to remember the first day of school in the 1970s or 80s, your memory is probably of rolling up on foot, with nary a parental vehicle in sight. Moms and dads mostly didn’t chauffeur their children to class. School was something you walked to.

Fast forward to the present. Canadian school drop-off zones often look like the parking lot outside a concert, with harried vice-principals in neon vests directing traffic, and tiny children navigating a sea of giant SUVs.

Fewer than a quarter of Canadian students between the ages of 5 and 19 typically walk or ride their bikes to school, according to the non-profit organization ParticipAction. An Angus Reid survey conducted for the charity Children Believe found the share to be barely higher, at 27 per cent.

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