# Children always walk to School. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037 "2012-03-28T13:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/1 "2012-03-28T13:17:52Z")
But they always run home. Why? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/2 "2012-03-28T13:19:36Z")
Disagree with the premise. I walked both ways as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/3 "2012-03-28T13:20:18Z")
my daughter runs both ways, or skips… ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/4 "2012-03-28T13:21:04Z")
Somebody really has to ask this question? ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/5 "2012-03-28T13:25:20Z")
In what 1950’s universe? There’s a long lineup of cars outside of almost every school I see these days. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/6 "2012-03-28T13:29:42Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Somebody really has to ask this question? Don’t want factual answer.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/7 "2012-03-28T13:32:29Z")
Why? Because play is more fun than work. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/8 "2012-03-28T13:40:20Z")
I walked to the bus stop in the morning because I wanted to spend as little time there getting beat up as possible. I ran home from the bus stop in the afternoon to escape the kids trying to beat me up. I \*so \*like being a grown-up. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/9 "2012-03-28T14:01:15Z")
excretory distress develops later in the day. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/10 "2012-03-28T14:55:00Z")
Cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/11 "2012-03-28T15:02:29Z")
Cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/12 "2012-03-28T15:36:44Z")
Moving from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/13 "2012-03-28T15:42:25Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > In what 1950’s universe? There’s a long lineup of cars outside of almost every school I see these days. This is also my answer. Kids’ legs are going to atrophy and fall off from never being allowed to set foot on ground any longer. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/14 "2012-03-28T15:50:21Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > In what 1950’s universe? There’s a long lineup of cars outside of almost every school I see these days. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > This is also my answer. Kids’ legs are going to atrophy and fall off from never being allowed to set foot on ground any longer. I don’t want to blow your minds and send you guys into seizures but this 1950’s universe is here and now and in this universe! My nephew and several of his friends in the third grade walk to and from school EVERYDAY! Myself I always pogo sticked to and from school even after I got a car because cars are for assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/15 "2012-03-28T16:28:03Z")
Since I only lived a block and a half away from school in a very small town, I walked… uphill both ways through 3 feet of snow 😃 . Even after we moved, I was still only about a block and a half from school. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/16 "2012-03-28T16:35:08Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Since I only lived a block and a half away from school in a very small town, I walked… uphill both ways through 3 feet of snow 😃 . > > Even after we moved, I was still only about a block and a half from school. “Don’t look now! I think that gymnasium is gaining on us!” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/17 "2012-03-28T16:40:46Z")
Because they can’t make the school out of the stuff they make the black boxes out of. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/18 "2012-03-28T16:46:14Z")
In my personal experience, because _Dark Shadows_ started at 3:00, and if I ran home I only missed the first 5 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/19 "2012-03-28T17:18:47Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > In my personal experience, because _Dark Shadows_ started at 3:00, and if I ran home I only missed the first 5 minutes. See, people think it’s great that kids walked/ran to and from school, but they were only running home to vegetate in front of the TV. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/20 "2012-03-28T19:01:29Z")
I never ran home. Home was worse than school. Even with the bullies. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037.md?page=2)