While conducting research on America’s obesity epidemic, I stumbled upon this awesome study.
Researchers in New Mexico devised a Walking School Bus Program for a predominantly lower-income Latino elementary school. They recruited parents as volunteers, had kids sign permission slips, and simply helped them walk to school.
Yep. That’s it.
It’s so stupidly, absurdly obvious. And yet it now seems novel because we’ve moved so far away from normal activity in our daily lives. The original Walking School Bus initiative was designed to reduce traffic congestion while allowing children to walk to school safely. This Alburqure based program shifted just a little bit, to an emphasis on health and moving.
This is something that can be replicated almost anywhere, with little to no cost.
What are you waiting for?
[...] MeaghD*mn those Europeans, thinking of everything first. Just after writing my post about the walking school bus, I found this: Photo Courtesy of [...]