Safety factors, such as traffic speed and volume, were chosen more frequently by parents as barriers to their children walking or biking to school, more so than crime or violence.
A vast majority of parents (88 percent) believe that the Glyndon-Felton Elementary School neither supports nor actively encourages children to walk and bike to and from school.
A vast majority of parents (80 percent) believe that walking and biking to and from school is, in some degree, healthy for their child. 46 percent believe it to be healthy and 34 percent very healthy.
PARENT SURVEY – SELECT QUESTIONS For the complete Parent Survey results see Appendix A.
The Glyndon-Felton Elementary School serves grades K-5. In September 2014, 400 Parent Surveys were distributed which corresponds with the total school enrollment of 398 students at that time. Of that 400, 121 surveys were returned, met the criteria to be entered in the National Centers’ database, and are included in this report.
Question – Is the child who brought home this survey male or female? Approximately 48 percent of questionnaires were completed for male and 52 percent for female students.
Figure 26: Breakdown of male/female student representation in the parent survey.
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