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Granby, East Granby Speak Up: Do You Wait with Your Child at the Bus Stop?
Are fewer kids walking to the bus stop alone nowadays? Do you think it's best if parents walk to or watch over the bus stop? Patch asked, and you answered!
Inspired by a drive up Route 32 earlier this week, during which one Patch editor saw very few unattended students waiting to be picked up for school, Patch asked parents, 'do you walk with your kids to the bus stop?'
Well, Granby and East Granby have answered!
According to the Granbys Facebook page, parents said they prefer to walk with their kids.
- "I wait with my kids. Our stop in the morning is just next door and coming home it's our house. I like being outside and I have to walk the dog anyway."
- "I always wait with my son my 1st grader for the bus. The stop is at the corner of our street and there are no sidewalks."
According to the CDC, fewer kids are also walking and biking to school nowadays. An overwhelming 87 percent of children who lived within a mile of their school in 1969 biked or walked there, the CDC reports, but that number fell to 63 percent in 2001.
The CDC cites increasing distances between student's homes and school buildings (due to a decrease in the number of schools) and parental fear of violent crime as contributing factors.
Do your children walk themselves to school? How about to the bus stop? Let us know in the comments!
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