Take a walk in their shoes

Some she'll always remember. One she'd already like to forget.

Before Kayla only had to cross one street, her own, to get to the bus stop, but Kayla fell right on the dividing line of Dayton Public Schools new policy of not busing students within a mile and a half of schools.

So as 2 NEWS told you earlier this week, even though her classmates one and three houses down can still go to the bus stop, Kayla has to hit the streets before hitting the books.

"At least it's not completely dark yet," says Brandy Fisher, Kayla's mom, about the trip.

The sun was about the only thing up when we started out from Kayla's Lombard Avenue home around 7 a. m.

We decided to time our trip, which wound its way through intersections both big and small, but those intersections weren't the only places you had to watch your step.

On at least two sidewalks were shards of broken glass.

Other obstacles were dogs. At least two Kayla passed were not on leashes. Others barked at her from the porch.

About halfway through Kayla's backpack got too heavy for her to carry, and her mom took it for her, but eventually we made it to Wright Brothers Elementary.

The time from first step to final goodbye was just more than 40 minutes.

"I don't know how long she'll be able to keep it up," Brandy says. "This is just the first day."

Just for fun we wanted to see how long it would take to walk to Kayla's old bus stop, where her neighbors are still being picked up.

The time was one and a half minutes.

"I'm hoping they can find room for her because this is going to be difficult," Brandy says.