A Walking School Bus is a group of children (passengers) and adults (drivers) who walk to and from school along a designated and safe route. The “bus” picks up students in the morning and drops them off, in the reverse order, in the afternoon.
The program can be developed to fit the needs of the participants; as informal as two families taking turns walking their children to school or as formal as a route with designated stops, a timetable, and a regularly rotated schedule of parents and volunteers. The “bus” can run as seldom or as often as the parents want to “drive” it and as the children want to “ride it”.