Parenti says he's tried to convince PTO presidents and elementary school principals. The farthest house from the Runkle School, says Parenti, is about one-half mile away. Summergrad even offered free breakfasts and loudspeaker congratulations to students who braved the trek. In any case Lynch was hopeful. Here are the problems.
Parents are in a mad rush, many racing to get to work.
It's the media's fault, many say. But it's parents, she says, who are parking illegally, double-parking, blocking buses, in crosswalks. Or, at least, walking partway to school. But we failed - for all the silly reasons walking proponents have heard a thousand times. But Child No. 3 was into it, so mother dropped off the first two, maneuvered a ways past the school congestion, parked and trotted No. 3 to her classroom.