FCCPS - good luck getting your older kids to school on time!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is “Marshall/Meridian”?

Presumably Henderson/Meridian

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCCPS doesn’t offer busing to half the students. No one who lives within 1.5 miles gets a bus, and most parents end up driving their kids due to all the construction. It’s a shit show and no one in Central Office has a solution.

We live on the far end away from the school, and many kids bike to school instead of taking the bus. If you really feel a need to drop off you can do so blocks away from the school and they can walk the rest of the way. There are options that don't require parents to drop off at the school.

OP here. My apologies. Henderson/Meridien.
There's no parking, the construction is a disaster.
Drop off across the street or down the street.
My kid doesn't feel safe biking across/down Broad St. Too much construction.
Dropping off at Giant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCCPS doesn’t offer busing to half the students. No one who lives within 1.5 miles gets a bus, and most parents end up driving their kids due to all the construction. It’s a shit show and no one in Central Office has a solution.

It is not 1.5 miles. And parents who are driving their kids to and from school every say are creating a generation of lazy entitled kids. They. Can. Walk.

I posted this and yes, the walk zone goes up to 1.5 miles. Maybe not where you live? My kids are within a mile and walk to school, so it’s not an issue for us but it is a real issue for plenty of kids/families. Typical FCC parent who can’t see beyond your own nose to how things could be different for someone else. 🙄

What street is 1.5 miles? I have a friend on Lee Street and they are right at the border of the walk zone, and it's 1.1 miles. That's a 15 minute walk.

I'm sorry, I just don't think it's too much to ask a middle or high schooler to walk 15-20 minutes to school most days.

That's great for your friend! I'm not going to share specifics because I don't want to "out" anyone, but there are 100% families who don't get a bus and live between 1.1-1.5 miles from school in the neighborhoods south of Broad and no longer get a bus. Many of them.

Bus routes got adjusted back to normal, most kids will get bussed again. Also, the kiss n ride is super fast and easy, even with all the construction. They are a well oiled machine once school starts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCCPS doesn’t offer busing to half the students. No one who lives within 1.5 miles gets a bus, and most parents end up driving their kids due to all the construction. It’s a shit show and no one in Central Office has a solution.

We live on the far end away from the school, and many kids bike to school instead of taking the bus. If you really feel a need to drop off you can do so blocks away from the school and they can walk the rest of the way. There are options that don't require parents to drop off at the school.

OP here. My apologies. Henderson/Meridien.
There's no parking, the construction is a disaster.
Drop off across the street or down the street.
My kid doesn't feel safe biking across/down Broad St. Too much construction.
Dropping off at Giant.

OP do you seriously live in FCC? Hard for me to imagine any resident of FCC with kids in the school system who confuses Mason with Marshall or types Marshall when they meant Henderson or who spells Meridian wrong. Sorry, just hard for me to imagine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is practically every school because of all the switches from buses to drop-offs. Depending on your particular school logistics, you're probably better off finding a nearby neighborhood and walking them in.

Please don’t do this. I used to live by a local, upscale high school. Parents would park in our fire lanes, students would take up our visitor spots. I asked one student to slow down and later got my car keyed. So glad we moved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCCPS doesn’t offer busing to half the students. No one who lives within 1.5 miles gets a bus, and most parents end up driving their kids due to all the construction. It’s a shit show and no one in Central Office has a solution.

We live on the far end away from the school, and many kids bike to school instead of taking the bus. If you really feel a need to drop off you can do so blocks away from the school and they can walk the rest of the way. There are options that don't require parents to drop off at the school.

OP here. My apologies. Henderson/Meridien.
There's no parking, the construction is a disaster.
Drop off across the street or down the street.
My kid doesn't feel safe biking across/down Broad St. Too much construction.
Dropping off at Giant.

OP do you seriously live in FCC? Hard for me to imagine any resident of FCC with kids in the school system who confuses Mason with Marshall or types Marshall when they meant Henderson or who spells Meridian wrong. Sorry, just hard for me to imagine.

OP here. I did not say we live in FCC. We live just outside your precious city limits but do everything in the city, including all of our activities and camps and most of our shopping. My kids were in camp at Meridian and the parking lots were a MESS, it was terrible dropping kids off. I hope you all had better luck today than we did with camps over the summer. It was a disaster.

[Anonymous]

First three days of school have gone great! Kid took the bus and no trouble at all. Please, if you don't have to, don't drive your kid to school. We are probably 1.2 miles from Meridian, and kids have always taken the bus with no trouble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCCPS doesn’t offer busing to half the students. No one who lives within 1.5 miles gets a bus, and most parents end up driving their kids due to all the construction. It’s a shit show and no one in Central Office has a solution.

We live on the far end away from the school, and many kids bike to school instead of taking the bus. If you really feel a need to drop off you can do so blocks away from the school and they can walk the rest of the way. There are options that don't require parents to drop off at the school.

OP here. My apologies. Henderson/Meridien.
There's no parking, the construction is a disaster.
Drop off across the street or down the street.
My kid doesn't feel safe biking across/down Broad St. Too much construction.
Dropping off at Giant.

OP do you seriously live in FCC? Hard for me to imagine any resident of FCC with kids in the school system who confuses Mason with Marshall or types Marshall when they meant Henderson or who spells Meridian wrong. Sorry, just hard for me to imagine.

OP here. I did not say we live in FCC. We live just outside your precious city limits but do everything in the city, including all of our activities and camps and most of our shopping. My kids were in camp at Meridian and the parking lots were a MESS, it was terrible dropping kids off. I hope you all had better luck today than we did with camps over the summer. It was a disaster.

Yes, they've made it much better for the start of the school year. Sorry it was a pain for the summer camps.