8th
May
2008
Walking is healthy, kids
Back in 1852, when the Free Education Act authorized Island communities to establish their own schools, proximity was everything. If the law said that schools could not be any closer than three miles from one another, then that’s how things would be. And if you couldn’t face the long mile-and-a-half uphill through waist deep snow, then you took the family horse. Exercise was part of daily life, and the local fitness club simply didn’t exist; it didn’t serve a purpose. Above all else, school was accessible.
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