Parents Exercise Right To Drive

2 December 2003 - 10:00am

Fitness experts recommend that children add physical activity, such as walking, to their daily routines.

For many metro Atlanta students, walking isn't an option. A steady stream of new students living in recently constructed subdivisions has caused school enrollments in many suburbs to mushroom. The need for more and larger schools has driven school districts to build on the outskirts of communities, where large tracts of land are less expensive and more readily available than in neighborhood centers.

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 1, 2003
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