We very much understand it and yet, instead of complaining we make it work. Some flex, some do carpools, sometimes the older kids on the team/activity help out the younger ones, etc. Lots of options. How do you not understand that? Maybe how you treat people is why no one will help? You could ask a parent to drive your kid and you pick them up after work, for example. |
???? I work. I can’t leave work early regularly. My kid has the option of taking the public bus for free and walking 1.3 miles. He’s not disabled and could use the exercise. I’m not going to leave work early to pick up a kid from some eat rather curric practice when he has other options. I’m also not going to burden another parents or teen with driving him when he could take a bus and walk. When he had an activity bus, he had less of a transport haul and was more likely to stay after school and do things. I am directly responding to the original poster’s comment about the activity busses not being great from Wheaton. She is correct and it is a downside of Wheaton. |
Wheaton is now at 2750. It is the second-most requested school in the DCC, after Blair.
-- Wheaton teacher |
There’s no official student parking lot, but all the kids park in the lot for the swimming pool and county park (behind the stadium and tennis courts). |
Sorry meant to specify this for Wheaton. |
Thanks, that's good to know. We asked at open house and they said there was no parking, but makes sense if it's just unofficial. |
You sound exhausting and don't seem to understand HS is different. |
What do you think of the administration at Wheaton? I hear a lot of complaints from parents and teachers |
You sound like you are an MCPS employee who designed the crappy Wheaton school bus activity routes. And you still don’t understand that we live four miles from the school. I know about the two mile rule. |
Unless you are using the royal we, you are not a single parent. And you haven’t mentioned if you work, and if so if you work at a job outside the home with rigid hours. So stop giving mesh*t for not being my teen’s chauffeur or for not mooching off other parents to give my kid rides. |
NP. This thread has gotten out of hand. It is impossible for some parents to get off work to drive their kid to and from activities. I don't know why that PP is arguing so hard about this.
The "we make it work" perspective comes from a lot of privilege, usually with two UMC/MC parents with salaried jobs that have some flexibility although they may be demanding. I don't doubt it may require sacrifices for them to be able to drive their kid but it is not the same as someone who has rigid hours or an hourly job. |
+1 I can roll out of my office at 3pm and nobody cares, but I can recognize this is not true for many people. |
Northwood is not a strong school. It’s the weakest in the DCC along with Kennedy. |
You sound horrible. Your kid needs to go to his home school since he has a parent who will never drive. Most of our hs activities are after work hours so you could make work. |
Then it’s not a discussion and kid goes to home school or mom gets flexible or carpools or kid gets friends with decent parents since op will never help out others. Or, kid can live with dad. |