Communities across the country joined together to celebrate Walk to School Day See who stepped up, and find out who walked in previous years. Communities across the country celebrated the tenth annual National Bike to School Day in Find out who participated this year and in previous years. For most schools, a one-day event is not enough. Communities see the promise of healthier students and safer streets.
Learn more about transitioning your event into ongoing activities. Programs that encourage active commutes to school should also incorporate safety education. In order for children to adopt new skills, they need practice time and repeated reinforcement of the key messages. The following resources can help. Most of all, they are fun! Join communities as they walk and bicycle to school for these events each year.
The National Center for Safe Routes to School, the coordinating agency for Walk and Bike to School Day, is committed to empowering communities to make active commutes to school a safe, appealing, preferred choice for families. Want to share your event stories and photos?
The initiative is the only one of its kind in Ireland which specifically promotes active and sustainable travel on the journey to school and has become one of the most important action awareness weeks in the Irish school calendar. Green schools across the country are encouraged to celebrate the benefits of walking and to encourage the whole school community to walk — with many declaring their school a car-free zone during the week.
Sport Sport. However, being inside a motor vehicle does not promise safety. In fact, motor vehicle crashes are one of the leading causes of death for school-age children NHTSA, In the United States during , 1, children ages 14 and under were killed and , children in this age group were injured as motor vehicle occupants NHTSA, As the percentage of children walking and bicycling to school continues to decrease, motor vehicle traffic increases, and parents become more convinced that walking to school is unsafe for their children.
Parents may believe that the safest way to school is for them to drive their children, but may not be aware that by driving they contribute to the traffic congestion and traffic danger surrounding the school.
As communities have accommodated increased motor vehicle traffic volumes, opportunities to walk and bicycle have suffered. Many places have no sidewalks, and where they are present, they may be in need of maintenance or are blocked. While the weather has not changed since a generation ago when so many children walked or bicycled, adverse weather was the third most frequently cited reason parents gave for not allowing their children to walk to school CDC, Identifying weather as a barrier could be reflective of contemporary social norms in the United States, where people are accustomed to driving for almost every trip.
This makes it easy to forego walking and jump in the car at the first sign of cold, rain or heat. Nevertheless, Safe Routes to School efforts have been launched in areas with all kinds of weather, from cities across Canada to Anchorage, Alaska; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Arlington, Massachusetts.
Almost 12 percent of parents in the CDC survey cited that crime danger prevented them from allowing their children to walk to or from school CDC, Parental fears of crime include child kidnapping and assault. However, according to the U.
Department of Justice, in the most recent data available to date only two percent of reported missing children were the result of non-family abductions. These issues can generate strong fears, and communities are finding ways to address these safety concerns. Crime concerns may be based on both real and perceived crime.
Whether real or perceived, these fears affect how many children are allowed to walk or bicycle to school.
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