Thousands expected to participate in Minnesota’s
Walk and Bike to School Day event Wednesday
KSTP-TV [Minneapolis St. Paul],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: voxpopuli,
10/12/2022 8:20:30 AM
Drivers will need to be more vigilant Wednesday on their morning commute, as the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) celebrates Walk and Bike to School Day.
Thousands of students across the state are expected to participate. (snip) Families that may live too far to walk or bike the entire way can still participate.
Many districts are hosting drop off points within a half mile of schools, where volunteers will be ready to walk the rest of the way with those kids.
Makes you wonder what their plan is, doesn't it.
Can't trust teachers to be looking out for the best interest of your children.
Every pedophile in the state will be skipping work that day.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rather Read 10/12/2022 8:39:45 AM (No. 1302272)
Back in the 50s and 60s when I went to school, we rode the bus or our bikes. But we were always courteous. Somehow I don't think these people will be.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mobyclik 10/12/2022 8:58:18 AM (No. 1302301)
Well, good for those morons, more gas for me and my evil SUV.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
red1066 10/12/2022 9:20:06 AM (No. 1302332)
I'll drive extra fast today to celebrate the walking students.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 10/12/2022 9:25:26 AM (No. 1302340)
I'm waiting for the day - - when they bike to school after a blizzard - - when the temperature is minus 20 degrees.
Yes - - I'll pay to watch that.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/12/2022 10:06:32 AM (No. 1302404)
Everything old is new again. Half a century ago the bike racks at schools were full of bicycles ridden there by students from near and far. And then redistricting for social purposes destroyed neighborhood schools, and buses replace bikes. Fear eventually ended any practice of riding a bike to school. OP has it right...now it's a political statement to ride a bike one day a year to apparently disrupt evil auto traffic. Thank goodness for those intrepid volunteers to walk that last half mile to school with the kids. I did that myself when I was in first grade, some days with friends picked up along the way. By junior high I walked two miles. No bus or ride in those days. It wasn't even considered "heroic".
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Encore 10/12/2022 10:16:48 AM (No. 1302421)
Up to the day I started high school, I walked or rode my bike every day the weather allowed (wasn’t raining). I formed a lot of friendships and worked out a lot of social issues for myself along the way. I very rarely see kids, anywhere, riding bikes today. Sad.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 10/12/2022 10:30:26 AM (No. 1302452)
Wow! Didn't realize I was so far ahead of the curve. In the sixties, I walked to school every day until high school graduation.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 10/12/2022 10:38:52 AM (No. 1302463)
Yep, biking to school makes perfect sense in -40 weather with two feet of snow and ice on the ground. Perfect biking weather. And if you don't bike, you can walk. And maybe you won't get frostbite on those wonderful Minnesota winter mornings in the black darkness since the sun doesn't rise in the winter there until much later in the day.
I did bike to classes every day in college......IN FLORIDA.
These people are just out there somewhere beyond stupid, taking their idiocy to new depths rarely seen before.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 10/12/2022 11:12:51 AM (No. 1302495)
Putting million of kids in the streets to virtue signal sounds pretty dumb. Isn't there a colorful ribbon for this to show they really care that someone else is walking to school?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/12/2022 11:29:18 AM (No. 1302505)
What a novel concept! We walked or biked everywhere we went. Our family’s car went to the office with Dad. No one in our good=sized city would have dreamed of being driven to school. Now the Mommy cars lined up in front of all schools - including junior highs and high schools - tell how much things have changed. So do the overweight kids.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/12/2022 11:34:00 AM (No. 1302512)
My late aunt and her family lived in Minnesota for many decades. Surely she’d have mentioned if it snowed and was freezing cold every day of the school year...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 10/12/2022 11:53:53 AM (No. 1302533)
I walked to school every day carrying my sister on my shoulders, sun, rain or snow...uphill both ways it was...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/12/2022 12:36:42 PM (No. 1302587)
Yep they will also have to dodge the Criminals and burning Buildings...this is what HELL is like, for Sure!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 10/12/2022 1:31:03 PM (No. 1302647)
If they would have had these when I was in school, I would have wanted them every day. I loved to learn, but I hated school. (I could learn more at home.) School would NOT be the direction I would walk in.
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almost the whole article.. there are about a million skool kidz in Minnetaxes.. so some snowflake mothers in the SUBURBS came up with a way to disrupt "evil cars" while trying to shame REAL students.. this should play out well..