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Winona Hubbard guides students through a bike safety rodeo exercise.
great organization providing an essential and free service for our district.” Almost 30 years later, Hines still doesn’t like wearing a helmet, though she would never ride without one these days. While she loves the feeling of
wind whipping through her hair, she says Latham would have had an 85 percent likelihood of surviving that crash if she had been wearing a helmet. Hines is open with her students. She tells them that she would prefer not to wear a hel-
training program. “Kids need to understand why they should obey the rules, not just because mom or dad says, ‘I told you so.’ You can only change behavior when kids can internalize the reasons behind the behavior and understand the consequences of the choices they make,” Hines says. It would seem that Huff fourth-grader Stephan Bannikov was beginning to do just that. After completing his run through the safety course, he said he knows why he needs to look over his left shoulder before entering an intersection — because drivers often don’t look to their right before making a right hand turn. He also knows that he needs to make eye contact with drivers, so he will know that they’ve seen him. And it doesn’t hurt that the traffic safety rodeo is also fun. “I liked it,” Stephan says. V
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met. However, she explains that she wears one precisely because of how effective helmets have been proven to be in preventing serious injuries. She is open about her opinion of helmets for the same reason she has developed the traffic safety rodeo
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