Harness the Entropy.

Like all schools with young children, this school operated a ‘Kiss and Drive’ – a system where parents queue to drop or pick up their child. The Kiss and Drive is supervised by several staff in high visibility vests who monitor and enforce the heavily regulated process of ensuring that students make it into their parent’s car and out the gate without being killed.

Five minutes later those same students, under the care and authority of their parents, are alighting in the local shopping centre car park or outside their home and in an hour, many are dropped off and picked up at sport training or music tutoring or at a friend’s place. Not a high vis vest to be seen.

That same school pays and organises student excursions to an organisation that runs simulated safety sessions where students walk around a simulated streetscape with tablets simulating how they make safe choices in traffic situations.

Why not harness the entropy of the Kiss and Drive to teach the children (and their parents) the same thing?