Parent-Accompanied Walking Bus
This is an ideal way to get started quickly and get parents and children used to the concept.
- Parents are responsible for their own children.
- Everyone meets at a pre-arranged time and walks to school together.
- More people join the Walking Bus just because they see it, they are going that way anyway and the children want to join the others.
- No commitment is required.
- No forms need to be filled in.
- No volunteers are needed.
The only thing you need to do is round up a few people in your neighbourhood and arrange to walk to school together. A crowd attracts a crowd and before you know it you will have a Walking Bus.
Meanwhile you can work on the requirements for a volunteer-accompanied Walking Bus. By the time this is launched many parents and children will be so used to walking as a group that volunteers should be easy to find. Parents will then have the option of walking with the group or leaving their children to walk safely with volunteers.
