Is a bus line to get to Mac Arthur new school?

[Anonymous]

Oh please, just as Hardy has been mostly OOB so will this new HS. There will be a need to get kids from metro stops over to Macarthur blvd. My guess is down Foxhall Rd. The other option is a bus from Friendship. No way a bus could run from Farragut through Georgetown but maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh please, just as Hardy has been mostly OOB so will this new HS. There will be a need to get kids from metro stops over to Macarthur blvd. My guess is down Foxhall Rd. The other option is a bus from Friendship. No way a bus could run from Farragut through Georgetown but maybe.

In 2020-2021, Hardy was 62% in-boundary.

[Anonymous]

Is the mayor basically conceding that most everyone just wants to attend ward 3 schools?
They have thrown in the towel in trying to improve schools in other wards. I’m guessing they have dug in their heels on no tiered classes at the high school level (true honors vs. On-level vs. AP because of so-called equity reasons) so they have given up on trying to attract more quality-education-focused families to schools like Eastern and Cardozo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the mayor basically conceding that most everyone just wants to attend ward 3 schools?
They have thrown in the towel in trying to improve schools in other wards. I’m guessing they have dug in their heels on no tiered classes at the high school level (true honors vs. On-level vs. AP because of so-called equity reasons) so they have given up on trying to attract more quality-education-focused families to schools like Eastern and Cardozo

Yeah, the original idea of Deal for All is that all schools would be good. But that was both hard and misinterpreted. So some people, like the PP a few posts above, thinks it means everyone in the city should go to school in Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please, just as Hardy has been mostly OOB so will this new HS. There will be a need to get kids from metro stops over to Macarthur blvd. My guess is down Foxhall Rd. The other option is a bus from Friendship. No way a bus could run from Farragut through Georgetown but maybe.

In 2020-2021, Hardy was 62% in-boundary.

62 percent is pretty low

[Anonymous]

62% is not all that low. a lot of the not 62% went to hardy middle school feeders for elementary school. the new high school is really hard to get to for most of the city. maybe georgetown will someday get its metro stop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please, just as Hardy has been mostly OOB so will this new HS. There will be a need to get kids from metro stops over to Macarthur blvd. My guess is down Foxhall Rd. The other option is a bus from Friendship. No way a bus could run from Farragut through Georgetown but maybe.

In 2020-2021, Hardy was 62% in-boundary.

62 percent is pretty low

Yes, though it's majority OOB as PP declared.

Fwiw, 95% of the students come from the feeders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please, just as Hardy has been mostly OOB so will this new HS. There will be a need to get kids from metro stops over to Macarthur blvd. My guess is down Foxhall Rd. The other option is a bus from Friendship. No way a bus could run from Farragut through Georgetown but maybe.

In 2020-2021, Hardy was 62% in-boundary.

62 percent is pretty low

Yes, though it's majority OOB as PP declared.

Fwiw, 95% of the students come from the feeders.

**I mean NOT majority OOB

[Anonymous]

Did you know which buses are leaving from tenleytown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh please, just as Hardy has been mostly OOB so will this new HS. There will be a need to get kids from metro stops over to Macarthur blvd. My guess is down Foxhall Rd. The other option is a bus from Friendship. No way a bus could run from Farragut through Georgetown but maybe.

Why not? Lots of kids take the bus from Farrugut or Dupont to get to Duke Ellington.

[Anonymous]

These is completely crazy .How long you think is going to take bus plus metro to get to this new school 2 hours.We can get a bus all together. because the city is doing nothing in this issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please, just as Hardy has been mostly OOB so will this new HS. There will be a need to get kids from metro stops over to Macarthur blvd. My guess is down Foxhall Rd. The other option is a bus from Friendship. No way a bus could run from Farragut through Georgetown but maybe.

Why not? Lots of kids take the bus from Farrugut or Dupont to get to Duke Ellington.

The D5 ran from Farragut through Washington Circle and M St onto MacArthur, but only at rush hour and in the opposite direction than would work for the schools. That line got cut over the pandemic and hasn’t been reinstated. It would work well for the school.

[Anonymous]

The local ANC and Councilmember had proposed a new bus line and an increase in frequency of the existing (D6) line. But the mayor cut half of the Circulators in her FY24 budget and WMATA doesn’t seem to keen to scale up service either. I suspect that there will be some amendments to try to get a new line in the budget, but I’d wouldn’t bet money on them succeeding - there just isn’t enough revenue this year (thanks to all those working from home).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The local ANC and Councilmember had proposed a new bus line and an increase in frequency of the existing (D6) line. But the mayor cut half of the Circulators in her FY24 budget and WMATA doesn’t seem to keen to scale up service either. I suspect that there will be some amendments to try to get a new line in the budget, but I’d wouldn’t bet money on them succeeding - there just isn’t enough revenue this year (thanks to all those working from home).

The D6 would be nice for OOB, but does nothing for the vast majority of IB, nor even for the J-R IB that get a preference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These is completely crazy .How long you think is going to take bus plus metro to get to this new school 2 hours.We can get a bus all together. because the city is doing nothing in this issue.

Yep, not feasible or easy to get to. It’s going to be alot of OOB which BTW the original plan was 50%. Apparently they scrapped that but who know what goes on behind close doors.