I agree with Paul D. above. Brentwood has "no busing" and is a "walking" community. It would be healthy in the long run and give the kids some "social" time with their friends by walking...good for the obesity that health providers are talking about. It is a problem, b/c so many parents insist on driving and picking up their kids from school. A traffic nightmare not only on the streets near Elroy and Moore school, but on Brownsville Road also. Let them walk.

I totally agree but the younger kids like mine in kindergarten are not permitted to leave without a parent to get them. I also think it is the same for kids in first grade but the higher up grades should walk. I just think that there should be some other system for picking up the kids.

Elementary school kids have no business crossing 51 to get to school. Young children should not be walking unsupervised on busy streets like Brownsville. There is too much risk. I'd like to know how many elementary school kids Paul D and HMS have attending these schools now. The fact of the matter is that brentwood does not want to pay for busses and the tax payers are happy to not foot the bill. I live much too far from Moore elementary to let me 7 year old walk to school. It won't happen, and we will continue to drive him and soon his sister. Maybe you should consider walking from my home and up marylea to Moore and then tell me what a great idea it is.

Carey, I totally agree with you !! In this day and age is too dangerous to let our kids walk that far to school . I think that the older kids who live within in walking distance can walk , only if there is a group of kids walking together . That is the only way my child will walk when he is older.

Paul D, Hms, and all other Back in My Day-ers -

I walked to school when I was 6 too. My mother also left me in the car to run in and pay for gas (which was about $1.15 back then!) You could smoke in restaurants. And phones were attached to walls with cords.

Now days I can look out my window and watch my neighbors house get raided at 8am by DEA agents. I can upload YouTube videos of all the ignorant people blowing through every single stop sign on my street with my smart phone. And I can share high res digital photos on SeeClickFix of all the lovely people who park ON the sidewalk all the way up and down my street (4 blocks worth), making walking on the sidewalks for a 5 or 6 year old (or anyone!) absolutely impossible. And I can sit behind my computer screen and go on and on about how times have changed, and remind you all that Brentwood is no Mt. Lebanon folks...but I'll save my breath.

Something absolutely needs to be done with the drop off/pick up situation at Elroy. I can only assume Moore has similar issues given it's similar setting....? For those who live around the school, believe me when I tell you it is equally as frustrating for us to see your empty driveways and all of your cars parked out in the street, and to have to end up parking 2+ blocks away with younger siblings in tow to pick up a kindergartener as it is for you to have to see someone using a PUBLIC parking space in front of your house for 10 minutes in the morning and afternoon.

Some of us don't have the luxury of being able to walk with our kids to school - or the luxury of having a whole group of kids for them to walk with - or the luxury of even living on the same side of Brownsville.

I walked to school when I was 6. I lived in a true walking district though. A walking district THIS is not. We don't live in Mayberry and the safety of the kids, MY kids, comes way before a walk down memory lane.

How about having those little fatties walk to school instead of having mommy pick them up?

Kind of hard to do when your child is in kindergarten and a parent has to pick them up!!