Fewer students walk to school

Bob Shaw:

It's 9 a.m., and the rush is on.

Buses disgorge hundreds of students at one side of Bailey Elementary School in Woodbury. On the other side, parents line up in SUVs to drop off their kids.

"Bye-bye," says Silva Theis of Woodbury, kissing her fourth-grade daughter.

In the hubbub, no one notices what's missing - the dying practice of walking to school. Of 620 students at Bailey, not one walks - not even those who live one block away.

Managers of a 6-year-old federal program think they know why.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 3, 2011 1:01 AM
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