Normalizing Long School Commutes
A speaker recounted growing up in a place where a five-kilometer school commute was normal, involving a ten-kilometer daily round trip.
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“the road. I personally grew up in a place where school was five kilometers from home and it was normal after breakfast to be told run to school and it's five kilometers. So I was doing 10 kilometers every day. There were children who are doing longer than that and that was perfectly normal. So there's, you know, this kind of attitude where long distances are not really a huge hindrance and apart from that...”
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