• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The paragraph after that makes it even worse:

    Gomis called the district’s transportation department but was told nothing could be changed, she said. Kentucky law allows bus stops for elementary students to be up to a half-mile away while middle and high school students may walk up to one mile.

    It probably doesn’t hurt a high schooler to walk a mile (although it would suck ass in the winter), but a half-mile for a first grader every morning no matter the weather? That should not be legal.

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      I used to live closer than that to my elementary school and I was forbidden (by the school) from walking to school.

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        That kinda sucks, used to live like 900m from mine and walked back from school every day since I started it.

        Didn’t walk to the school because I was too hard to get up early enough for it and mom didn’t mind dropping me off in the morning

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        That’s true for kids at my daughter’s middle school too, but I’m actually glad they don’t walk it because there aren’t even any sidewalks around the school, let alone between the schools and their houses. So some kids have a 90 minute bus ride and other kids have a 2 minute bus ride. All they have to do is build sidewalks and it will fix that problem.

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      Our state requires “safe walking routes”. I’m not sure about the distance to a bus stop, but I know for walking to school it’s up to a mile for elementary school, if there are sidewalks. Otherwise they’re bussed.

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      Why should half a mile of walking be illegal for first graders? There’s a solution to rain and snow: it’s called a jacket and umbrella. Source: I walked almost exactly half a mile to school in first grade.

      Unless the weather is catastrophically bad, even first graders can walk half a mile.

      The issue here is the carcentric, children-killing infrastructure, not the distance.