LYNDON - The state of Vermont does not have a mandated school zone speed limit, but that may be changing.

In the Vermont House, there is a bill being looked at, proposing that a speed limit between 25 to 35 miles per hour be set within one-thousand feet of a kindergarten, elementary school, or secondary school.  Other states around the country have already set standard speed limits.

At Lyndon Institute, the speed limit is 25 miles per hour, but crossing guard Rick Russell thinks that there are other factors that make living by a school dangerous.  "Every time your out here, you see someone coming by not even looking at where they're going. They're texting, that's what they're doing. I think it's worse than speeding.  We've had a couple of accidents out here where a car has run into the back of another car.  If that car had not been there, they might have gone through the cross walk with kids in it."

Vermont has banned texting and driving and is one of 12 states that do not yet have a specified speed limit for school zones.