WE ADMIT to having been a tad skeptical when we heard about the initiative of D.
C. Public Schools to teach all second-graders to ride a bicycle. Isn’t that a parent’s job? Don’t schools enjoy more important things to carry out? But the more we thought about children who may enjoy no other opportunity to memorize to ride,the more sense the idea made. Bike-riding is a physical skill that provides lifetime rewards, and the bike program is fragment of a larger effort to do learning more engaging and relevant — another sign of ongoing improvements in D.
C. public education.
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Source: washingtonpost.com