private transportation service to drop off child at school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VIP Kids Transit, LLC is a transportation service for children between the ages of 5-10 years of age. Our service is exclusive to private schools, summer camps, and individual clients. We are here to help families make their schedules easy by taking care of your transportation needs. Our service is great for busy parents who live or work in DC, VA and MD.

http://vipkidstransit.com/


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Congratulations, you've successfully pissed off all the parents of kids in public school. You know there are sooooo many more public school kids. Thanks for your shout out to "private schools" in your description. Really savvy move.

Oh please get the chip off of your shoulder! Why are you lurking on the private school thread then? I am sure note private schools need this type of transport because many children attend privates far from their house whereas public schools in most cases are in your neighborhood.

I read the original post as they can be hired by private schools, summer camps, or individual clients. No public school is going to hire VIPkids. If they want to offer transportation, they'll use school buses. But a private school might work to set up a shuttle that parents pay for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VIP Kids Transit, LLC is a transportation service for children between the ages of 5-10 years of age. Our service is exclusive to private schools, summer camps, and individual clients. We are here to help families make their schedules easy by taking care of your transportation needs. Our service is great for busy parents who live or work in DC, VA and MD.

http://vipkidstransit.com/


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Congratulations, you've successfully pissed off all the parents of kids in public school. You know there are sooooo many more public school kids. Thanks for your shout out to "private schools" in your description. Really savvy move.

Oh please get the chip off of your shoulder! Why are you lurking on the private school thread then? I am sure note private schools need this type of transport because many children attend privates far from their house whereas public schools in most cases are in your neighborhood.

What options are available now? I've heard of people using the studentshuttle and "man with a van" (but for the life of me, I can't find a link to it).
TIA

I read the original post as they can be hired by private schools, summer camps, or individual clients. No public school is going to hire VIPkids. If they want to offer transportation, they'll use school buses. But a private school might work to set up a shuttle that parents pay for.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure what's the best solution, but I'd like to share an experience I had. When I finished college, I was looking for work and accepted a few babysitting jobs. One parent asked me to pick up her son from school some afternoons and sit with him until she came home. He was angry every time I arrived and talked incessantly about why his mother leaves him with strangers ("She works a lot. She's more interested in her job."). He was a bright, serious 5th grader who didn't seem happy to me. I tried to engage him, read with him, play games with him, and listen to him. Nothing really made him happy. It made me sad, actually. I did not mention this to his mother. She would come home, hug him, pay me, and say, "I'll call you if I need you." Not one time did she ask me about his day or how he behaved. I was young and didn't know how to express to her how concerned I was.

Well, one day, she came home, and her son just ignored her. She reached for her purse to pay me, and I told her that she didn't need to pay me this time. Then I asked her son to tell his mother what he confided in me each day. He cried and told her how he felt. How do you think she responded? She started blaming me saying that I should not discuss his feelings with him! I told her that was my last day.

I'm a mom now, and it's hard, so I understand we have to ask others for help. But I will try never to have my child with so many different people day after day. I think that can be damaging on so many levels. If it's a couple of times week with the same person, it's probably fine, but different people every day? That's torture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure what's the best solution, but I'd like to share an experience I had. When I finished college, I was looking for work and accepted a few babysitting jobs. One parent asked me to pick up her son from school some afternoons and sit with him until she came home. He was angry every time I arrived and talked incessantly about why his mother leaves him with strangers ("She works a lot. She's more interested in her job."). He was a bright, serious 5th grader who didn't seem happy to me. I tried to engage him, read with him, play games with him, and listen to him. Nothing really made him happy. It made me sad, actually. I did not mention this to his mother. She would come home, hug him, pay me, and say, "I'll call you if I need you." Not one time did she ask me about his day or how he behaved. I was young and didn't know how to express to her how concerned I was.

Well, one day, she came home, and her son just ignored her. She reached for her purse to pay me, and I told her that she didn't need to pay me this time. Then I asked her son to tell his mother what he confided in me each day. He cried and told her how he felt. How do you think she responded? She started blaming me saying that I should not discuss his feelings with him! I told her that was my last day.

I'm a mom now, and it's hard, so I understand we have to ask others for help. But I will try never to have my child with so many different people day after day. I think that can be damaging on so many levels. If it's a couple of times week with the same person, it's probably fine, but different people every day? That's torture.

Uh... okay.

Thanks for sharing?

[Anonymous]

To PP: I'm sure you meant well but I don't think I would take parenting advice well from a college student too! I think most of responsible parents are doing the best they can. Every family situation is different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a company called Wheelz4Kidz that support around the Metro DC beltway.

Do they have a website? A googe search turned up nothing.

We used them. Terrible. Always late. Pot smokers.

[Anonymous]

Great thread!!

I am joining the Pre-k parents gang that need to drive their kid from school to home! So it would be from Bethesda to Falls Church everyday at 3.20 PM it will enable my child to be at home at 3.50 exactly when his dad gets there. I drop him off in the morning at 8.30 (then go to work in DC) so I can't pick him up.

And just for the judgmental extremist parents living in another world, the reasons why I prefer this solution is that instead of sending him to aftercare, he would be at home with my husband who leaves work at 3.45 (we live 5 mins from his office). If my husband would pick him up, he wouldn't reach the after-schoold daycare before 5 PM and probably not be home before 6PM!! so it's stupid. Besides this will last only one year because starting from next year the school has a bus service that drops them in Falls Church.

I would love to find a solution. I heard that there are some carpooling parents but not sure yet who will be in his class for next year.

I have contacted the different agencies mentioned in the thread but no solution yet. I know two cab drivers and one limousine service owner so I will also check with them.

Thanks for your help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure what's the best solution, but I'd like to share an experience I had. When I finished college, I was looking for work and accepted a few babysitting jobs. One parent asked me to pick up her son from school some afternoons and sit with him until she came home. He was angry every time I arrived and talked incessantly about why his mother leaves him with strangers ("She works a lot. She's more interested in her job."). He was a bright, serious 5th grader who didn't seem happy to me. I tried to engage him, read with him, play games with him, and listen to him. Nothing really made him happy. It made me sad, actually. I did not mention this to his mother. She would come home, hug him, pay me, and say, "I'll call you if I need you." Not one time did she ask me about his day or how he behaved. I was young and didn't know how to express to her how concerned I was.

Well, one day, she came home, and her son just ignored her. She reached for her purse to pay me, and I told her that she didn't need to pay me this time. Then I asked her son to tell his mother what he confided in me each day. He cried and told her how he felt. How do you think she responded? She started blaming me saying that I should not discuss his feelings with him! I told her that was my last day.

I'm a mom now, and it's hard, so I understand we have to ask others for help. But I will try never to have my child with so many different people day after day. I think that can be damaging on so many levels. If it's a couple of times week with the same person, it's probably fine, but different people every day? That's torture.

This is santimommy at it's worst. Not everyone can have a leave it to beaver set up. Signed a SAHM who gets this and perhaps this poster should as well

[Anonymous]

River City Transportation LLC (bonded and insured) will be seeking private school routes in NOVA for the upcoming 2017-18 school year. Please contact James at River City Transportation 804.519.2698. We also provide transportation services for individual family needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:River City Transportation LLC (bonded and insured) will be seeking private school routes in NOVA for the upcoming 2017-18 school year. Please contact James at River City Transportation 804.519.2698. We also provide transportation services for individual family needs.

Isn't this based in WI??? Where's their VA office?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:River City Transportation LLC (bonded and insured) will be seeking private school routes in NOVA for the upcoming 2017-18 school year. Please contact James at River City Transportation 804.519.2698. We also provide transportation services for individual family needs.

Isn't this based in WI??? Where's their VA office?

804 is a Richmond area code

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! Maybe the hired driver can come inside the school and cheer your kids on during their sports events, plays, etc. Maybe he could even attend your parent conferences as well -- those can really be inconvenient. How about trips to the doctor? Wow, you've really hit on something here.
The next time I head to the airport, I'll just see if the driver wants to move in with us. Just think how convenient that would be.

I am pretty sure I know the OP and your sarcasm is completely inappropriate for this situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:eeewwwww. I can only imagine the high self-esteem of a child that arrives at school/activities in a cab when the rest of the cohort is dropped off by a family member or steady nanny. My god, where does the outsourcing of our parenting responsibilities end!
I'd just love to see 1) the therapy bills for these kids and 2) the lovely retirement facilities they find one day for these "loving" parents. Cats in the cradle anyone?

Gag me you entitled clueless person. Maybe a cab is what this (gasp) working family can afford. Their kids will have resilience and plenty of self esteem and NOT be burdened by the entitlement of children who grow up in families like yours. I took plenty of cabs due to the fact that I had a single mom. I went to a top tier Private in NYC and a top university and guess what!? No self esteem issues or therapy bills. I only hope you are a troll.

[Anonymous]

HopSkipDrive is a kid pickup service in California. I've sent a few random emails to their customer service department begging them to start service in DC, to no avail. This is a great service not just for private school folk, but all the DC families who send their kiddos to charter schools outside their neighborhood. If any of you high-powered/with contacts folks want to lobby HSD to start up here, here's the website: https://www.hopskipdrive.com/ In the meantime, my solution was hiring a student from U-Md to pick up our son right after school 3 days a week.

[Anonymous]

I am an experienced driver with my own private driving service. I am currently seeking a group of 5-6 students to transport to DC Metro Area Private Schools, for the upcoming 2017-18 school year. (ie Mc Lean School, Holton Arms, Bishop O'Connell, etc.) Please Note: A group of children that will attending the same school.

Please contact:
James Wyant
River City Transportation LLC
804.519.2698