As a small mouse, it has crept aboard midday walking bus that takes the last two years, students from kindergarten Suzanne Lanky in the canteen of Saint-Hillarie-Liz-Cambria. We’re taking you with us?
Get there a few minutes before the parents to see the silhouette of the two “conducting” the walking bus disappearing into the pretty kindergarten Suzanne Lanky, go around the class to recover the fourteen children who will eat at the canteen this midi then put them in working order, “and winter do take a reflective vest, because you have to cross a street to get to the canteen, it can be dangerous,” says Pascal De Never, graduated BAFA, municipal employee in reflective vest for six years.
While some of their classmates climb into the cars of their parents, they take the direction of the school yard. For it is there that this walking bus line starts.
There was first a red staircase to descend before to track slabs depicting colorful animals, skirting the cemetery to climb a new red stairs and drop finally hungry children safely. “Before the creation of the walking bus, remembers Pascal De Never, we had to make the turn, you pass the church, and we go through the cemetery. There are pebbles on the ground. The children were at risk of falling on the graves. The walking bus has secured the ride. He reassured us and saves us time. ”
The second line of podiums hand, at about the same time, primary school Joliot-Curie. This is Isabelle soling which the conduit. There are return trips, of course. And in the evening after school, a third line takes the children of the Joliot-Curie school daycare that is in kindergarten.
On our own line, right now, we advance. Pairs. Every day there are negotiations about who will hand Pascal De Never or Nathalie Proverb. “But some do not want us to give it all. They prefer a little fellow, who sometimes has already chosen another for the road “, says Pascal De Never. So there are little dramas but still adult ears to listen and then reassurance. Ethan precisely panics. He saw an insect to pass him; he is afraid of being bitten and continues to return to check an errant mosquito comes nibble. “The children speak to us on the road a lot, explains Nathalie Proverb. They tell us they have made animations in the morning, the outputs of the afternoon, all. “The link is even stronger than the two ladies are also involved in the canteen, plays games with the little ones before classes resume, and is also responsible for new extracurricular activities. Five minutes passed. The terminus is already stands opposite us.
An idea that is hard to take
It was a tempting idea, though. The walking bus, with its group of children take from one point to another is economic, ecological, for creating bonds between parents and children with reflective element. But it did not take.
At least, not outside the three remaining lines of Saint-Hillarie-Liz-Cambria. They were intended to get children to school from different points throughout the city. “It was for families to coach trips, explains Maurice Defraud, the mayor of the commune. The initiative was launched in 2013 by Jean-Raymond Wattles, his predecessor. But the habit of taking the car is anchored. ”
This is the same conclusion in Vineries. Four lines were implemented “in 2011 or 2012, remembers Laurence Prelate, mayor of the municipality. This is Michel Waller and who had this idea, he liked the innovative things. What was clear from the discussions when it was introduced, it was insurance issues. “The council is committed to defray insurance that would cover pupils and careers. But no accompanying precisely does volunteer to mentor schoolchildren. “In our town, we have many working parents without reflective tape on clothing, Laurence Prelate Advance as explanations track. They go by car drop their children at nursery or school before running off to work. ”
Rest of this adventure, scattered signs and hope that one day, take the walking bus.