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FCPS Students to Participate in Bike to School Day on Wednesday, May 8
Fairfax County Public Schools will participate in Bike to School Day on Wednesday, May 8, to promote physical activity and reduce traffic congestion and pollution near schools. May is National Bike Month. Biking helps us feel energized, engage with our neighbors, and reduce our carbon footprint. Not only does biking to school help foster lifelong healthy habits, but it can also encourage active transportation in the early-life stage. Starting the school day with a bike ride, walk, or roll will ensure that students are awake and ready to learn.
Students and employees are encouraged to bike or walk to school and work where safe to do so on May 8. Parents are encouraged to accompany their children to school, and to work with their school and PTA or PTO to assemble bike trains or walking groups for the event.
Not my kid Wrote:
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> That would be a hell of a bike ride for a 14 year
> old from Fox Mill to Oakton High School.
They really need to get a grip on reality.
Some people want their children to get to school alive. That's OK!!!!! Being alive is good. Nothing to feel guilty about.
No way in hell I'm letting my kids bike on these over crowded roads at 7am in the morning.
Hell there's no way I would even bike on the ANY of the Fairfax County roads.
It's time to banned bicycling on Fairfax county roads over 25 mph. The over development and traffic in Fairfax County has made bicycling far to dangerous. It's a public safety issue.
Each year about 100 children are killed and 254,000 are injured as a result of bicycle-related accidents. Keeping a bike in the home increases your child's odds of dying by a factor of nearly four times greater than a gun in the home.
Bike-to-school and/or walk-to-school efforts cannot be honestly appreciated unless on those days they eliminate school bus service and for that matter, parent kiss-and-ride service.
If you’re going to do something, do it right or don’t do it at all.
If the bleeding-hearts REALLY wanted to do something, they’d eliminate school buses altogether and organize walking parties with all the kids that would otherwise be on the bus. The patrols could then REALLY do something.
But that will never happen because they don’t care THAT much. They just like to sound like they do.
in fx co they'd put bars on the bus window and elecgtric fences if the supreme court wouldn't protest them. they'd build helicopter landing pads for each child for all those helicopter parents.
MARK MY WORD - THIS INITIATIVE is about fx co gov given asians money to build bike paths and asians selling bicycles. it's NOT ABOUT THE KIDS!
BIKES = DEATH Wrote:
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> Each year about 100 children are killed and
> 254,000 are injured as a result of bicycle-related
> accidents. Keeping a bike in the home increases
> your child's odds of dying by a factor of nearly
> four times greater than a gun in the home.