BBC: Children to be banned from cycling to school without number plates

On 9/26/2018 5:11 AM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 12:06:43 PM UTC-4, Radey Shouman wrote:
Children have been told they will be banned from cycling to their south
London school if they do not put number plates on their bikes.

Teachers at Stanley Park High, in Carshalton, are introducing the scheme
so members of the public can report pupils cycling dangerously.

The secondary school said the main aim was to keep children safe.

Charity Cycling UK questioned why Stanley Park High "want to make
cycling to school more difficult".

On the school's website, head teacher Amit Amin wrote: "All students who
cycle to school will be required to display a school-issued bicycle
number plate when riding to and from school.

"Students without a number plate will not be permitted to cycle to
school, or lock their bicycles on school grounds."

Mr Amin said the measure was in response to incidents of children
cycling in a way that "endangers themselves and others".

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more at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-45636870

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In the U.S.A. there are schools that have prohibited children from riding bicycles to school at all.

For example: https://www.bicycling.com/news/a2001...g-to-school-2/

Part but certainly not all of the problem comes from the practice of
siting schools on big campuses located away from town centers, on former
rural roads. Land is cheaper there, so they can build sprawling
one-story schools that are less expensive to construct.

Our school board recently proposed a new tax levy to allow tearing down
two schools in historic buildings within village limits and building a
new "campus" three miles from town. Kids have sidewalks and walking
paths to the existing schools. They'd all have to be bused to the new place.

The community rose up and defeated the proposed levy. I believe it's the
first time a school levy was defeated here.

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