The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star has a nice overview of the Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation‘s Safe Routes to School program and their Walking Wednesday program. They’ve established standard, safe routes for students to walk to Greenbrier Elementary, Buford Middle School, and Greenbrier has all of their students walk to school on Wednesday. With childhood obesity on the rise and traffic (and related environmental problems) only getting worse, ACCT’s program is helping with a host of problems.
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ACCT rocks.
Parents now will be driving their kids to school if their bus won’t be taking them. This will now make them mad. And of coarse we will be subject to meetings and outrage.
yeah, sheeeittt! how do we use all those big rig SUVs if it ain’t to show off at the small-keeadds skool.
we need bigmacs in schools. just think, we can edeekate our keeaads with eatin right and we’ll solve our social security problem at the same time: they’ll die at 60 and we’ve solved our babyboomer problem!
anyways, those liberals just wanna get at my gun and they ain’t gettin it!
If you read the article, you’ll see that they’ve been doing this for a year and a half now.
"They’ve established standard, safe routes for students to walk to Greenbrier Elementary, Buford Middle School, and Greenbrier has all of their students walk to school on Wednesday"
"has all" – as in they "must"?
Voluntary , I think – unenforceable although perhaps beneficial.
“has all” – as in they “must”?
Good question. I can only assume that elementary school students are not being graded on their ability to walk to school, but I likewise assume that a bus is only available for those students who are not physically able to walk to school. I imagine any kid who wants to get a ride is free to do so.
Then, this is all speculation, though perhaps my readings on ACCT over the years are actually leaking out of the dim recesses of my mind. :)
with all your sour grapes?