Walk-to-School Day was the best for the city overall since the program started back in '99, and a great success at Hoover. Preliminary results (11 classrooms reporting) show that 62% of our students used alternative transportation today, way up from the 46% of two years ago. Usually, 64% of students come to school in the family car, so traffic was pleasantly light today. I hope to have more statistics in next week's newsletter.
The Walking School Bus was attended by about 35 kids today. We hope that they and their parents will keep using this route, a nice start of the day, isn't a little walk in the fresh morning air to be preferred over sitting stuck in slow-moving traffic in a stuffy car?
We hope to have introduced a few parents to an attractive alternative way to school, especially for those of you coming from the North; and if you didn't join this week we hope you will try it out for yourself someday soon.
I'd like to thank all the parents who participated and helped out, especially Don, Jali, Bob, Betty, Kelly, Marianne, Brendan, Lorene, Amy, Sung, co-coordinator Susi Khosla, and Henny; Mimi Mackey, John Craig and Hozumi Myauchi from the PTA Board for their help and support; Mr Cox for his encouragement; and Betty and Nancy at the office for their assistance. (Last names witheld in public posting.)
Marco Schuffelen, October 2nd, Walk-to-School Day 2002