walk to school day

Mary’s school (Monarch K-8) joined the rest of America and the world to celebrate International Walk to School Day on October 3rd, 2007.

We have been walking to school for the past three weeks now so it was just another walk for us. But, there sure was a lot more foot traffic - moms and dads and dogs walking the kids to school, kids on inline skates, bicycles, scooters (like Mary).

The school sent out a flyer about it the week before and on this flyer, they had a highlighted PS “Enjoy bottled water and other goodies courtesy of Sam’s Club, Albertsons, Safeway and the PTO!” What they mostly had were donuts, from Lamar’s.

donuts at walk to school day

The iwalk website asks the question, “Why promote walking and bicycling?”

The first reason - “To enhance the health of kids.”

Serving kids donuts enhance their health???  I wonder who contributed the Lamar’s donuts… Sam’s Club, Albertsons, Safeway or the PTO? Where’s the fresh fruit like apples, grapes, pears, cut-up oranges? Or, maybe bagels would have been a wiser choice to enhance the health of kids.

To be fair, there was bottled water and a box of Clif Kid Organic Twisted Rope. But, the kids (and parents) would have been better off without the donuts…