How do EOTP middle schoolers get to Deal/Hardy/other WOTP schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you do that terrible commute? Just move to close in burbs and you have great schools with great facilities with tracking in all subjects in middle and high school. Plus school buses and neighborhood schools where the overwhelmingly majority of kids attend.

Because our mortgage is under $2k a month and we don’t want to live in the suburbs, particularly not after our child graduates high school. PLUS where we could afford in MCPS isn’t any better than JR.

Then you can easily rent out your house and rent in the burbs and then move back to the city once your kid is done with middle and high school.
Just admit that you don’t want to do it, not that you can’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you do that terrible commute? Just move to close in burbs and you have great schools with great facilities with tracking in all subjects in middle and high school. Plus school buses and neighborhood schools where the overwhelmingly majority of kids attend.

Because our mortgage is under $2k a month and we don’t want to live in the suburbs, particularly not after our child graduates high school. PLUS where we could afford in MCPS isn’t any better than JR.

Then you can easily rent out your house and rent in the burbs and then move back to the city once your kid is done with middle and high school.
Just admit that you don’t want to do it, not that you can’t.

The PP you're talking to literally said "we don't want to live in the suburbs." Verbatim.

[Anonymous]

I live EOTR and my kid commutes to tenlytown. When my kid was at Hardy I usually drove because I worked about 5 minutes away but my kid always commuted back home. It was bus to the train with one transfer, and then bus to home. In the winter my kid often got home after dark. Pretty long commute but my kid didn't mind. Now I drop my kid off at the train and rides that all the way to school with one transfer. My older kid also traveled across town for high school, not quite as far but to Shaw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you do that terrible commute? Just move to close in burbs and you have great schools with great facilities with tracking in all subjects in middle and high school. Plus school buses and neighborhood schools where the overwhelmingly majority of kids attend.

Because our mortgage is under $2k a month and we don’t want to live in the suburbs, particularly not after our child graduates high school. PLUS where we could afford in MCPS isn’t any better than JR.

Then you can easily rent out your house and rent in the burbs and then move back to the city once your kid is done with middle and high school.
Just admit that you don’t want to do it, not that you can’t.

LOL the OP clearly said they don't want to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you do that terrible commute? Just move to close in burbs and you have great schools with great facilities with tracking in all subjects in middle and high school. Plus school buses and neighborhood schools where the overwhelmingly majority of kids attend.

Because our mortgage is under $2k a month and we don’t want to live in the suburbs, particularly not after our child graduates high school. PLUS where we could afford in MCPS isn’t any better than JR.

Then you can easily rent out your house and rent in the burbs and then move back to the city once your kid is done with middle and high school.
Just admit that you don’t want to do it, not that you can’t.

Why are you so pressed for OP to move? Serious psycho vibes..

[Anonymous]

If you lived EOTP you might understand that folks aren’t choosing or not choosing a school based on where their neighbors attend; they are simply trying to find an acceptable middle and high school, of which there are few EOTP. The ones that do exist are largely charter and application schools which are not guaranteed and folks do not necessarily want to take chances. It’s almost comical that folks WOTP are trying to suggest EOTP residents want to get away from their urban neighbors.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks to the posters who responded with the bus info, that was the key info I think I was missing. This thread is getting derailed by trolls, so maybe best to not poke them further.

[Anonymous]

We live in Shaw with kids currently in a feeder to JR. my 8th grader will apply to Banneker and SWW, but JR may be her top choice. Banneker looks great and would be a walking commute. Our kids have ridden the metro us to elementary and middle school together, but the story about the older woman being beaten and shoved off the bus by rowdy kids was the last straw. Metro can go bankrupt for all I care if it can’t keep riders safe. It’s really too bad.

[Anonymous]

Our family has been doing an across the park commute (Petworth to GLover Park/Tenley) for a dozen years. It not bad. Sure there is the occasional hellish day, but manageable. Even now, with piney branch shut down from Arkansas, we’ve handled it. Over the years, The car time has turned out to be great quality time where I actually talk to my kids about things and share music with them and listen to NPR and discuss current events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We turned down an OOB offer at Hyde-Addison this year because we're happy enough at our EOTP elementary that we didn't want to take on that commute yet. But looking ahead, we're considering either moving IB for a JR feeder or trying to lottery into an elementary feeder. I'd love to stay in our current house (we'd likely rent and rent, then move back when DC goes to college) if we can lottery in, but not sure how the logistics of a cross-town commute work in practice with older kids. Do parents drive middle schoolers every day? Carpools? Buses are so unreliable and would take 40-60 minutes, which feels like a long time when driving would be half of that. If you do the commute or are WOTP and have OOB friends that do, how do you do it?

You did what???

Where is your kid now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We turned down an OOB offer at Hyde-Addison this year because we're happy enough at our EOTP elementary that we didn't want to take on that commute yet. But looking ahead, we're considering either moving IB for a JR feeder or trying to lottery into an elementary feeder. I'd love to stay in our current house (we'd likely rent and rent, then move back when DC goes to college) if we can lottery in, but not sure how the logistics of a cross-town commute work in practice with older kids. Do parents drive middle schoolers every day? Carpools? Buses are so unreliable and would take 40-60 minutes, which feels like a long time when driving would be half of that. If you do the commute or are WOTP and have OOB friends that do, how do you do it?

You did what???

Where is your kid now?

Hyde clears pretty much all of their wait lists. OP can just lottery in again next year.

[Anonymous]

DC took a bus from Columbia Heights to Wisconsin and then another to Hardy or his father drove him (we are divorced). Now he takes the same bus to Wisconsin and another one to JR. The commute is not bad, but I prefer to live as close to a school as possible. I rent, so moving to follow schools is not too hard.
I have slightly different understanding of distance, but also time. Around the corner, really means around the corner, and in 5 minutes is in 5 minutes or under. So,having to come from CH, is the max distance I would like form DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you do that terrible commute? Just move to close in burbs and you have great schools with great facilities with tracking in all subjects in middle and high school. Plus school buses and neighborhood schools where the overwhelmingly majority of kids attend.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1087602.page

You sure about that? Sort of feels silly to sell your house and move for a "grass is greener" scenario, particularly when all of these school districts change their programming at the drop of a hat.

[Anonymous]

My daughter is now 21 and at the time attended Janney, Deal and JR as an OOB student. We did allow her to take the dedicated Deal bus (D34) starting in MS as did other families in the neighborhood.

At the time it was surprising how many families in our immediate neighborhood attended WOTP schools. We would have chosen Shepherd, but due to the number of IB students, we never got called off the waiting list.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, to answer your question, hundreds of middle schoolers take the metro or bus to school. This includes OOB kids but also all the kids who get to Basis, Latin, DCI, Cap City, etc.

Thanks, PP. This is OP again. It seems daunting to put them on a (unreliable) bus for 45+ minutes when the drive would be half of that, but it seems like it's normal? My thinking is still in elementary student mode, but I know a lot changes quickly as middle school approaches.

We do it! He likes the metro. Gets homework done or chats with pals.

+1 mine enjoys the bus ride as time to socialize with her friends.