On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:41:38 +0000, Graham P Davis wrote:

Many of the kids live within a ten-minute walk of the school.

There are a few kids at our shool that are brought and picked up by car.
They live less than a 10 min walk away, a good many other kids live a lot
further away and walk. I wonder if the fcat the mother is a large lady
has anything to do with it one of the children is a little round as
well...

That 10 minute walk would do them a world of good.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

On Feb 11, 12:01 pm, "Dave Liquorice" wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:41:38 +0000, Graham P Davis wrote:
Many of the kids live within a ten-minute walk of the school.

There are a few kids at our shool that are brought and picked up by car.
They live less than a 10 min walk away, a good many other kids live a lot
further away and walk. I wonder if the fcat the mother is a large lady
has anything to do with it one of the children is a little round as
well...

That 10 minute walk would do them a world of good.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

On Feb 11, 12:01 pm, "Dave Liquorice" wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:41:38 +0000, Graham P Davis wrote:
Many of the kids live within a ten-minute walk of the school.

There are a few kids at our shool that are brought and picked up by car.
They live less than a 10 min walk away, a good many other kids live a lot
further away and walk. I wonder if the fcat the mother is a large lady
has anything to do with it one of the children is a little round as
well...

That 10 minute walk would do them a world of good.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail


Yes, it would, not just physically, but socially and
psychologically as well. They would learn something.

Tudor Hughes

Sounds quite simple to me! WALKING LESSONS.
"David Buttery" wrote in message
.145...
I think it's worth defending some of the education authorities over the
last couple of days, since it seems to me that *some* of the complaints
are from people whose thoughts appear to come from 1977, not 2007...

When I first went to school (in 1980) the *vast* majority of pupils
walked, and most of those walked unaccompanied by their parents. My
family had one car, and my dad used it to go to work, so I got a lift
only very rarely (even in 1981-2!). In larger towns, fewer families had
cars at all, and almost everyone got a bus to school.

Many things have changed in a quarter of a century:

1) More parental choice over where to send their children
2) Many more families with multiple cars
3) The widespread closure of small schools (rural and urban)
4) Poorer public transport provision
5) Worries about the safety of children out alone

Put all those together, and you're left with a nation in which most
eight-year-olds get taken on the "school run" every single day. (Thus
making the roads even more unsafe for walking, but that's another
argument!) Many now live so far from their schools that they *couldn't*
walk there even if they wanted to.

The desirability or otherwise of this isn't really the point. What *is*
the point is that *given current lifestyle patterns* 10cm of snow is
inevitably going to cause *far* more difficulty in travelling to and from
school than it did thirty years ago, simply because it is much, much
harder to get to a snowy school under one's own steam than it was.

--
Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

"Col" wrote in message

Why can't these kids walk?

Because the roads aren't safe -- too many Chelsea tractors racing around
dropping off kids! ;-)

"Simon Bennett" wrote in message
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"Col" wrote in message

Why can't these kids walk?

Because the roads aren't safe -- too many Chelsea tractors racing around
dropping off kids! ;-)


Preeee-cisely!
Catch 22!
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

"Col" wrote in message
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"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
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One of the afternoon entertainments in a local pub is watching the queues
of
cars taking children home from school. Many of the kids live within a
ten-minute walk of the school. You see cars exiting a side junction onto
a
dangerous bend with the occasional driver having one hand on the wheel
and
the other holding a mobile to their ear - all in the need to keep the
children safe!

I live directly opposite a primary school and if I happen to be
off work and at home the normally quiet and peaceful road is
transformed at 3.30pm into a narrow road clogged with 4x4s
and people carriers.
Why can't these kids walk?
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
The kids can walk, it's the parents that are the problem.

Alan

Quoting from message
posted on 11 Feb 2007 by Alan Gardiner
I would like to add:


"Col" wrote in message
...

Why can't these kids walk?

The kids can walk, it's the parents that are the problem.

More places should operate the "Walking Bus" system - a Mum setting
off on foot with kids, picking up other kids and occasional Mums en
route.

In Dolgellau many Mums walk the kids to school then congregate in
local caf for panad afterwards, a very sociable arrangement.

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On Feb 11, 11:17 pm, Elaine Jones
wrote:
Quoting from message
posted on 11 Feb 2007 by Alan Gardiner
I would like to add:



"Col" wrote in message
...
Why can't these kids walk?
The kids can walk, it's the parents that are the problem.

More places should operate the "Walking Bus" system - a Mum setting
off on foot with kids, picking up other kids and occasional Mums en
route.

In Dolgellau many Mums walk the kids to school then congregate in
local caf for panad afterwards, a very sociable arrangement.

--
.ElaineJ.

That's good news but how many people here know that "panad" is
colloquial Welsh for a cuppa? :-)

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

In Dolgellau many Mums walk the kids to school then
congregate in
local caf for panad afterwards, a very sociable arrangement.

That's good news but how many people here know that "panad" is
colloquial Welsh for a cuppa? :-)

I didn't, but it was easy enough to work it out from the
context, and it's increased my vocabulary by one more word.
Thank you, Elaine.

FWIW the Gaelic equvalent is "strupach".

Anne