#SchoolCommute Highlights
This week, as part of our Strong Schools campaign, we asked readers to share photographs of your children's trip to school with the hashtag #SchoolCommute. The goal was to highlight the importance of locating schools in the neighborhoods they serve, safely accessible for children to walk or bike to; not on a stroad out on the edge of town.
Here is a selection of some of the best submissions we received:
The good...
...and the not so good
Thanks to everyone who participated and please keep sharing those #SchoolCommute stories on social media to continue the conversation on transportation and land use around our schools.
Top photo by Carol Green on Flickr
Discussions of kids’ safety are often limited to what they should do, like wearing helmets. While wearing a helmet may make them a bit safer, kids will never be as safe as they could be until adults address the infrastructural issues that put them in so much danger.