Moving from DCPS to Charter but commute is terrible

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Anonymous wrote:Get an ebike, OP! That way you get a workout and it's not lost time. The bike lane on Michigan makes it super easy to get from Petworth to Brookland.

Ebikes are an excellent way to get your kids killed on the way to school.

It is shocking how many parents with kids on ebikes I see blowing through stop signs and red lights. Even with Idaho stops, most times they don’t have the right of way.

The D.C. version of the Idaho stop only applies to stop signs. Unlike the traditional Idaho stop, cyclists in D.C. must still come to a full, complete stop at red lights.

It is funny that you think this happens.

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Anonymous wrote:How did this thread go from school commute to mayoral preferences? DCUM needs to calm down.

We used to drive our kid from NW to NE from Prek-3 to middle school for charter schools. It was definitely a 35-40 minute commute for drop off and then I would turn around and go drive to work in Georgetown.

BTW: some DC kids/parents take 2 buses and metro from Wards 7 and 8 to get their kids to mid-city charters or magnets. If you don’t think the commute fits with your lifestyle, it’s fine. Just please give your space up at the charter for another family.

For us, it was worth it for the charter school curriculums (LAMB & Truth). Also, I saw it as more time with my kid. It goes fast. They are at Walls now. Our inbound elementary was Stoddert. Enjoy the time with your little ones whatever you choose!

Being in boundary for Stoddert and driving across the city certainly is a choice.

Yes, always baffled by these choices. I guess with LAMB you get immersion and Montessori but personally I would have given up by 3rd.

I am far from a DCPS booster but some DCPS elementaries are really strong and it's always wild to me when people give up great IB options for charters I think are only okay. To each their own, of course, but it's just hard for me to wrap my head around it.

What is hard to understand about this? Where do you send your kid to high school if you've sent them to a DCPS elementary? Or do you live in NW and have never needed to think about this?

NP but the PP they are responding to said they’re in bound for Stoddert. So sounds like they have a great by right elementary, middle and high school. And instead drove their kids across the city.

They wanted Montessori and to them their IB options were not better. And it sounds like it worked out great for their kid who is now at Walls.

What is so hard to understand?

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Anonymous wrote:How did this thread go from school commute to mayoral preferences? DCUM needs to calm down.

We used to drive our kid from NW to NE from Prek-3 to middle school for charter schools. It was definitely a 35-40 minute commute for drop off and then I would turn around and go drive to work in Georgetown.

BTW: some DC kids/parents take 2 buses and metro from Wards 7 and 8 to get their kids to mid-city charters or magnets. If you don’t think the commute fits with your lifestyle, it’s fine. Just please give your space up at the charter for another family.

For us, it was worth it for the charter school curriculums (LAMB & Truth). Also, I saw it as more time with my kid. It goes fast. They are at Walls now. Our inbound elementary was Stoddert. Enjoy the time with your little ones whatever you choose!

Being in boundary for Stoddert and driving across the city certainly is a choice.

Yes, always baffled by these choices. I guess with LAMB you get immersion and Montessori but personally I would have given up by 3rd.

I am far from a DCPS booster but some DCPS elementaries are really strong and it's always wild to me when people give up great IB options for charters I think are only okay. To each their own, of course, but it's just hard for me to wrap my head around it.

What is hard to understand about this? Where do you send your kid to high school if you've sent them to a DCPS elementary? Or do you live in NW and have never needed to think about this?

NP but the PP they are responding to said they’re in bound for Stoddert. So sounds like they have a great by right elementary, middle and high school. And instead drove their kids across the city.

They made a choice to go to LAMB instead of Stoddert, and then Truth instead of Hardy or DCI. Clearly Montessori was a really good fit for this student? This is school choice in action... There is no "most reasonable path," it's a way to make individual decisions that are the best for your kid.

Kuddos to them, seems to have worked out!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did this thread go from school commute to mayoral preferences? DCUM needs to calm down.

We used to drive our kid from NW to NE from Prek-3 to middle school for charter schools. It was definitely a 35-40 minute commute for drop off and then I would turn around and go drive to work in Georgetown.

BTW: some DC kids/parents take 2 buses and metro from Wards 7 and 8 to get their kids to mid-city charters or magnets. If you don’t think the commute fits with your lifestyle, it’s fine. Just please give your space up at the charter for another family.

For us, it was worth it for the charter school curriculums (LAMB & Truth). Also, I saw it as more time with my kid. It goes fast. They are at Walls now. Our inbound elementary was Stoddert. Enjoy the time with your little ones whatever you choose!

Being in boundary for Stoddert and driving across the city certainly is a choice.

Yes, always baffled by these choices. I guess with LAMB you get immersion and Montessori but personally I would have given up by 3rd.

I am far from a DCPS booster but some DCPS elementaries are really strong and it's always wild to me when people give up great IB options for charters I think are only okay. To each their own, of course, but it's just hard for me to wrap my head around it.

What is hard to understand about this? Where do you send your kid to high school if you've sent them to a DCPS elementary? Or do you live in NW and have never needed to think about this?

NP but the PP they are responding to said they’re in bound for Stoddert. So sounds like they have a great by right elementary, middle and high school. And instead drove their kids across the city.

They made a choice to go to LAMB instead of Stoddert, and then Truth instead of Hardy or DCI. Clearly Montessori was a really good fit for this student? This is school choice in action... There is no "most reasonable path," it's a way to make individual decisions that are the best for your kid.

Kuddos to them, seems to have worked out!

This is so obviously an edge case (who spends 180 extra hours every year commuting to Sojourner Truth instead of just going to Hardy IB?) but PP is acting like something like that would be perfectly rational for most people.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did this thread go from school commute to mayoral preferences? DCUM needs to calm down.

We used to drive our kid from NW to NE from Prek-3 to middle school for charter schools. It was definitely a 35-40 minute commute for drop off and then I would turn around and go drive to work in Georgetown.

BTW: some DC kids/parents take 2 buses and metro from Wards 7 and 8 to get their kids to mid-city charters or magnets. If you don’t think the commute fits with your lifestyle, it’s fine. Just please give your space up at the charter for another family.

For us, it was worth it for the charter school curriculums (LAMB & Truth). Also, I saw it as more time with my kid. It goes fast. They are at Walls now. Our inbound elementary was Stoddert. Enjoy the time with your little ones whatever you choose!

Being in boundary for Stoddert and driving across the city certainly is a choice.

Yes, always baffled by these choices. I guess with LAMB you get immersion and Montessori but personally I would have given up by 3rd.

I am far from a DCPS booster but some DCPS elementaries are really strong and it's always wild to me when people give up great IB options for charters I think are only okay. To each their own, of course, but it's just hard for me to wrap my head around it.

What is hard to understand about this? Where do you send your kid to high school if you've sent them to a DCPS elementary? Or do you live in NW and have never needed to think about this?

NP but the PP they are responding to said they’re in bound for Stoddert. So sounds like they have a great by right elementary, middle and high school. And instead drove their kids across the city.

They made a choice to go to LAMB instead of Stoddert, and then Truth instead of Hardy or DCI. Clearly Montessori was a really good fit for this student? This is school choice in action... There is no "most reasonable path," it's a way to make individual decisions that are the best for your kid.

Kuddos to them, seems to have worked out!

This is so obviously an edge case (who spends 180 extra hours every year commuting to Sojourner Truth instead of just going to Hardy IB?) but PP is acting like something like that would be perfectly rational for most people.

Well not as far a commute but there is a contingent of Deal families going to DCI who felt that was a better choice for their families.

Then there are also WOTP families going to privates or moving to burbs.

Just because one family thinks a school is good enough doest’t mean all families think so.

It is also relative to what options you have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did this thread go from school commute to mayoral preferences? DCUM needs to calm down.

We used to drive our kid from NW to NE from Prek-3 to middle school for charter schools. It was definitely a 35-40 minute commute for drop off and then I would turn around and go drive to work in Georgetown.

BTW: some DC kids/parents take 2 buses and metro from Wards 7 and 8 to get their kids to mid-city charters or magnets. If you don’t think the commute fits with your lifestyle, it’s fine. Just please give your space up at the charter for another family.

For us, it was worth it for the charter school curriculums (LAMB & Truth). Also, I saw it as more time with my kid. It goes fast. They are at Walls now. Our inbound elementary was Stoddert. Enjoy the time with your little ones whatever you choose!

Being in boundary for Stoddert and driving across the city certainly is a choice.

Yes, always baffled by these choices. I guess with LAMB you get immersion and Montessori but personally I would have given up by 3rd.

I am far from a DCPS booster but some DCPS elementaries are really strong and it's always wild to me when people give up great IB options for charters I think are only okay. To each their own, of course, but it's just hard for me to wrap my head around it.

What is hard to understand about this? Where do you send your kid to high school if you've sent them to a DCPS elementary? Or do you live in NW and have never needed to think about this?

NP but the PP they are responding to said they’re in bound for Stoddert. So sounds like they have a great by right elementary, middle and high school. And instead drove their kids across the city.

Not all of us believe that Deal and JR are great options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did this thread go from school commute to mayoral preferences? DCUM needs to calm down.

We used to drive our kid from NW to NE from Prek-3 to middle school for charter schools. It was definitely a 35-40 minute commute for drop off and then I would turn around and go drive to work in Georgetown.

BTW: some DC kids/parents take 2 buses and metro from Wards 7 and 8 to get their kids to mid-city charters or magnets. If you don’t think the commute fits with your lifestyle, it’s fine. Just please give your space up at the charter for another family.

For us, it was worth it for the charter school curriculums (LAMB & Truth). Also, I saw it as more time with my kid. It goes fast. They are at Walls now. Our inbound elementary was Stoddert. Enjoy the time with your little ones whatever you choose!

Being in boundary for Stoddert and driving across the city certainly is a choice.

Yes, always baffled by these choices. I guess with LAMB you get immersion and Montessori but personally I would have given up by 3rd.

I am far from a DCPS booster but some DCPS elementaries are really strong and it's always wild to me when people give up great IB options for charters I think are only okay. To each their own, of course, but it's just hard for me to wrap my head around it.

What is hard to understand about this? Where do you send your kid to high school if you've sent them to a DCPS elementary? Or do you live in NW and have never needed to think about this?

NP but the PP they are responding to said they’re in bound for Stoddert. So sounds like they have a great by right elementary, middle and high school. And instead drove their kids across the city.

Not all of us believe that Deal and JR are great options.

Me neither in the abstract, but it’s all relative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did this thread go from school commute to mayoral preferences? DCUM needs to calm down.

We used to drive our kid from NW to NE from Prek-3 to middle school for charter schools. It was definitely a 35-40 minute commute for drop off and then I would turn around and go drive to work in Georgetown.

BTW: some DC kids/parents take 2 buses and metro from Wards 7 and 8 to get their kids to mid-city charters or magnets. If you don’t think the commute fits with your lifestyle, it’s fine. Just please give your space up at the charter for another family.

For us, it was worth it for the charter school curriculums (LAMB & Truth). Also, I saw it as more time with my kid. It goes fast. They are at Walls now. Our inbound elementary was Stoddert. Enjoy the time with your little ones whatever you choose!

Being in boundary for Stoddert and driving across the city certainly is a choice.

Yes, always baffled by these choices. I guess with LAMB you get immersion and Montessori but personally I would have given up by 3rd.

I am far from a DCPS booster but some DCPS elementaries are really strong and it's always wild to me when people give up great IB options for charters I think are only okay. To each their own, of course, but it's just hard for me to wrap my head around it.

What is hard to understand about this? Where do you send your kid to high school if you've sent them to a DCPS elementary? Or do you live in NW and have never needed to think about this?

NP but the PP they are responding to said they’re in bound for Stoddert. So sounds like they have a great by right elementary, middle and high school. And instead drove their kids across the city.

Not all of us believe that Deal and JR are great options.

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