LAMB South Dakota families

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the post OP. This was helpful to read. As much as I like LAMB, I've been going back and forth as to whether I could reasonably handle that commute in a few years. I to the new campus, it looks like it'd be just about a 30 min drive or an hour commute on the train and bus which is my preferred mode of transportation.

Are you saying 30 minute commute by car or 1 hour by public transportation one way to LAMB?? If so, no way in hell is that going to be sustainable. No way.

Lots of LAMB families do and have done that commute to get to SD from other parts of the city for years. Nothing will work for everyone. And DCI is just as far.

This. I don’t know anyone using public transit but families commute from the Hill and all over DC currently. It is not everyone’s choice but most people seem to underestimate how hard it is to find a good school at upper grades, with a feeder.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the co-location of Truth Montessori at 1800 Perry St. will impact LAMB decision to close the South Dakota campus? It would make sense to keep that campus open since Truth would be an option for parents who want to continue a Montessori education or can't get a seat a DCI.

There is no way. LAMB already has made the decision. It is much more cost effective and easier logistically to run 1 campus than multiple.

Plenty of schools have more than one campus and a lot can change in three years. I wouldn't rule it out as a possibility.

Such wishful thinking. LAMB has a middle school track to DCI. They could care less about Truth. Really.

What you want is not what makes business and logistic sense. That was the whole purpose of the consolidation. Keep dreaming.

Actually they are involved with Truth and do care. But not enough to keep that campus open. Then again I know we can never predict the future when it comes to charters. Truth will most likely move itself though by then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the post OP. This was helpful to read. As much as I like LAMB, I've been going back and forth as to whether I could reasonably handle that commute in a few years. I to the new campus, it looks like it'd be just about a 30 min drive or an hour commute on the train and bus which is my preferred mode of transportation.

Are you saying 30 minute commute by car or 1 hour by public transportation one way to LAMB?? If so, no way in hell is that going to be sustainable. No way.

Lots of LAMB families do and have done that commute to get to SD from other parts of the city for years. Nothing will work for everyone. And DCI is just as far.

Yes, 30 minute commute by car is far from rare in DC. Longer than I’d like but certainly lots of people do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the post OP. This was helpful to read. As much as I like LAMB, I've been going back and forth as to whether I could reasonably handle that commute in a few years. I to the new campus, it looks like it'd be just about a 30 min drive or an hour commute on the train and bus which is my preferred mode of transportation.

Are you saying 30 minute commute by car or 1 hour by public transportation one way to LAMB?? If so, no way in hell is that going to be sustainable. No way.

Lots of LAMB families do and have done that commute to get to SD from other parts of the city for years. Nothing will work for everyone. And DCI is just as far.

Yes, 30 minute commute by car is far from rare in DC. Longer than I’d like but certainly lots of people do it.

30 minutes by car going north but then you have to go back towards the city in rush hour which is way more than 30 minutes. You are easily looking at over an hour and 15 min optimistically. So 2.5 hours round trip. Totally crazy. That’s a huge quality of life issues. No thanks.

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The school was founded at a location further from downtown than where it will move. We all dropped our kids off and then hailed ass to our jobs. I can’t understand why new parents are upset.

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Anonymous wrote:The school was founded at a location further from downtown than where it will move. We all dropped our kids off and then hailed ass to our jobs. I can’t understand why new parents are upset.

I can. I would say it’s more like 2 1/2 - 2:45 with above. For us that is a non-starter. There are more choices for language immersion schools closer to downtown now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the post OP. This was helpful to read. As much as I like LAMB, I've been going back and forth as to whether I could reasonably handle that commute in a few years. I to the new campus, it looks like it'd be just about a 30 min drive or an hour commute on the train and bus which is my preferred mode of transportation.

Are you saying 30 minute commute by car or 1 hour by public transportation one way to LAMB?? If so, no way in hell is that going to be sustainable. No way.

Yes. Once the SD campus is no more, that's what the commute would look like. Currently, SD would be a 5 minute walk for us.

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Anonymous wrote:The school was founded at a location further from downtown than where it will move. We all dropped our kids off and then hailed ass to our jobs. I can’t understand why new parents are upset.

Not everyone has the same commute as you or the same job as you. How is that hard to understand?

Also parents were told years ago that the plan was to stay at South Dakota. The former principal told me directly they spent too much money renovating to consider a move anywhere else. Of course we now know that they were finalizing plans to purchase kingsbury at that time.

I have never seen any information showing that consolidation is the better Financial move. The board did admit that the lease at South Dakota was very inexpensive. It’s a great space. Kingsbury will require a TON of renovation. And there won’t be a cafeteria or gym for years. Yay can’t wait to have our kids try to learn among all that construction.

Try to have some compassion. A lot of people are going to be making really difficult choices in the coming months and your experience isn’t the same for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the post OP. This was helpful to read. As much as I like LAMB, I've been going back and forth as to whether I could reasonably handle that commute in a few years. I to the new campus, it looks like it'd be just about a 30 min drive or an hour commute on the train and bus which is my preferred mode of transportation.

Are you saying 30 minute commute by car or 1 hour by public transportation one way to LAMB?? If so, no way in hell is that going to be sustainable. No way.

Yes. Once the SD campus is no more, that's what the commute would look like. Currently, SD would be a 5 minute walk for us.

PP, I would suggest you do a test run in the morning and afternoon on a weekday and on a Friday. Then you will know for sure how much time.

I don’t know where you work but unfortunately if it’s downtown, it’s going to likely take more than 45 minutes in rush hour traffic in the morning. Sometimes it takes me 45 minutes 1/2 the distance you are traveling southbound on N. Capitol St from Washington Hospital center to downtown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the post OP. This was helpful to read. As much as I like LAMB, I've been going back and forth as to whether I could reasonably handle that commute in a few years. I to the new campus, it looks like it'd be just about a 30 min drive or an hour commute on the train and bus which is my preferred mode of transportation.

Are you saying 30 minute commute by car or 1 hour by public transportation one way to LAMB?? If so, no way in hell is that going to be sustainable. No way.

Yes. Once the SD campus is no more, that's what the commute would look like. Currently, SD would be a 5 minute walk for us.

PP, I would suggest you do a test run in the morning and afternoon on a weekday and on a Friday. Then you will know for sure how much time.

I don’t know where you work but unfortunately if it’s downtown, it’s going to likely take more than 45 minutes in rush hour traffic in the morning. Sometimes it takes me 45 minutes 1/2 the distance you are traveling southbound on N. Capitol St from Washington Hospital center to downtown.

That's a good idea. If I have a change of heart, I'll do that. I'm about 95 percent certain that I'm going to take it off because it just doesn't make sense for us. I'd have one in daycare and one in school and I have to do drop-off and pick-up for both. I do also work downtown. Currently, I take the bus from daycare to Brookland metro and just ride into downtown. The commute times I mentioned above would be from my house in Woodridge to the new campus so not even touching on the added time to get to and from work ?. And the drive time may actually be a bit longer just because that's not taking into consideration the added time of waiting on a ride share (I don't have my own personal vehicle right now). All of that added to the fact that I wouldn't want to enroll my son in a school only to take him out in a few years. I really liked the school, but we'll have to pass.

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If part of the consideration is a younger child in daycare (and the double drop-off/pick-up), then it's possible it could make sense to put down the SD campus now (which sounds like it works with your commute). In three years when the school moves, it sounds like you would be done with daycare and so both kids would be together. Maybe with one drop-off/pick-up, it's possible it is more feasible. Not as in "this-is-amazing-and-definitely-rank-it-#1" sort of way, but in a "this-could-work-for-now, rank-it-#10" and see what happens sort of way.

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Anonymous wrote:If part of the consideration is a younger child in daycare (and the double drop-off/pick-up), then it's possible it could make sense to put down the SD campus now (which sounds like it works with your commute). In three years when the school moves, it sounds like you would be done with daycare and so both kids would be together. Maybe with one drop-off/pick-up, it's possible it is more feasible. Not as in "this-is-amazing-and-definitely-rank-it-#1" sort of way, but in a "this-could-work-for-now, rank-it-#10" and see what happens sort of way.

Hmm, good point. I'm not crazy about the commute time to the school, but the elimination of an extra stop during the commute is definitely encouraging.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the post OP. This was helpful to read. As much as I like LAMB, I've been going back and forth as to whether I could reasonably handle that commute in a few years. I to the new campus, it looks like it'd be just about a 30 min drive or an hour commute on the train and bus which is my preferred mode of transportation.

Are you saying 30 minute commute by car or 1 hour by public transportation one way to LAMB?? If so, no way in hell is that going to be sustainable. No way.

Yes. Once the SD campus is no more, that's what the commute would look like. Currently, SD would be a 5 minute walk for us.

PP, I would suggest you do a test run in the morning and afternoon on a weekday and on a Friday. Then you will know for sure how much time.

I don’t know where you work but unfortunately if it’s downtown, it’s going to likely take more than 45 minutes in rush hour traffic in the morning. Sometimes it takes me 45 minutes 1/2 the distance you are traveling southbound on N. Capitol St from Washington Hospital center to downtown.

That's a good idea. If I have a change of heart, I'll do that. I'm about 95 percent certain that I'm going to take it off because it just doesn't make sense for us. I'd have one in daycare and one in school and I have to do drop-off and pick-up for both. I do also work downtown. Currently, I take the bus from daycare to Brookland metro and just ride into downtown. The commute times I mentioned above would be from my house in Woodridge to the new campus so not even touching on the added time to get to and from work ?. And the drive time may actually be a bit longer just because that's not taking into consideration the added time of waiting on a ride share (I don't have my own personal vehicle right now). All of that added to the fact that I wouldn't want to enroll my son in a school only to take him out in a few years. I really liked the school, but we'll have to pass.

This is a no brainer here. Take it off the list. Use that spot for a school that would actually work.

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Anonymous wrote:If part of the consideration is a younger child in daycare (and the double drop-off/pick-up), then it's possible it could make sense to put down the SD campus now (which sounds like it works with your commute). In three years when the school moves, it sounds like you would be done with daycare and so both kids would be together. Maybe with one drop-off/pick-up, it's possible it is more feasible. Not as in "this-is-amazing-and-definitely-rank-it-#1" sort of way, but in a "this-could-work-for-now, rank-it-#10" and see what happens sort of way.

Hmm, good point. I'm not crazy about the commute time to the school, but the elimination of an extra stop during the commute is definitely encouraging.

This is basically us. We live 5 min from SD campus and have 2 drop offs. After drop offs, one of us works downtown and does not drive there so they depart from metro or on bike after coming home from dropoffs. We are going to have to start commuting to new campus next year, having an older child. We are not, however, lotterying for another school this year.

The commute will now add in the extra 20 minutes commute, approximately, but getting from the new campus to work downtown can only efficiently be done on bike, there is no metro there. So we are currently looking into an electric cargo bike. In case a drive is needed we may have to do roundtrip dropoff and then work from home that day?

We are awaiting the school's word on bussing. Many families are hopeful about this and would take that option.

If I were you....I would probably list a few schools higher up, but, would still list LAMB. But, I also have the experience and I know that we do not want to give up either Spanish, or Montessori, so we are kind of stuck

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If part of the consideration is a younger child in daycare (and the double drop-off/pick-up), then it's possible it could make sense to put down the SD campus now (which sounds like it works with your commute). In three years when the school moves, it sounds like you would be done with daycare and so both kids would be together. Maybe with one drop-off/pick-up, it's possible it is more feasible. Not as in "this-is-amazing-and-definitely-rank-it-#1" sort of way, but in a "this-could-work-for-now, rank-it-#10" and see what happens sort of way.

Hmm, good point. I'm not crazy about the commute time to the school, but the elimination of an extra stop during the commute is definitely encouraging.

This is basically us. We live 5 min from SD campus and have 2 drop offs. After drop offs, one of us works downtown and does not drive there so they depart from metro or on bike after coming home from dropoffs. We are going to have to start commuting to new campus next year, having an older child. We are not, however, lotterying for another school this year.

The commute will now add in the extra 20 minutes commute, approximately, but getting from the new campus to work downtown can only efficiently be done on bike, there is no metro there. So we are currently looking into an electric cargo bike. In case a drive is needed we may have to do roundtrip dropoff and then work from home that day?

We are awaiting the school's word on bussing. Many families are hopeful about this and would take that option.

If I were you....I would probably list a few schools higher up, but, would still list LAMB. But, I also have the experience and I know that we do not want to give up either Spanish, or Montessori, so we are kind of stuck

I will just add, the parent community is very strong, and everyone's in the same boat over here so I expect some creative solutions. Not a guarantee of anything, though.