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It takes a village
A recent article in the Halifax Chronicle Herald encourages parents to let their kids walk to school. The article points out many obvious advantages - the exercise, the diminished hazard of parents dropping off and picking up their kids at the school, the reduced car emission pollution - and adds another one: the kids’ enhanced connection to their environment and chance to smell the roses along the way.
Of course, the modern tendancy towards megaschools means that many kids live too far away from their school to walk there. Perhaps we could learn something from the Swiss canton of Aargau where there are no school buses and virtually all of the children walk or bike to school. As this Swiss schooling article from our archives points out, there are additional advantages to having small local schools.