Would regional program bus rides actually be short? How long are current CES & regional program bus rides?

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My kid is in a MS magnet and takes a bus from the ES. We leave at 7:02 to catch the 7:15 bus and kid gets to school at 8:10

This is the kind of commute you will be looking at.

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Anonymous wrote:The new regional model only considers adding in HS to HS buses, so your kid needs to get up even earlier, riding a bus to local HS, and then another bus to the regional program. It’s gonna be logistically a disaster.

Are they really going to provide door to door bussing? Or will it be like the current magnets where there are a few stops in the area but they are not walks ke from every neighborhood. Like my son's stop was at our ES...but we had to drive him there.

Their most recent updates shown in their slide decks only take into account HS to HS transportation. There is no plan or calculation of additional cost if every ES, MS and community centers would require a stop.

This is infuriating. Is all their talk about the changes increasing convenience and access all lies? I was excited at first about regional programs increasing access for us and others, but we and probably many other families will have to turn down programs if the buses only pick up from the local high school. The spots will only go to more privileged families who can drive their kids back and forth or buy their kids cars (or who happen to be lucky enough to live right next to a high school.)

They will guarantee nothing and expect parents to figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Here are some interesting background story happened in Stafford county public school, Virginia, where Taylor was superintendent before he joined MCPS:

Search "Stafford county public school transportation melt-down" on google, and you can find the news articles all over the place for 2024-2025 year, when their specialty center plan rolled in for the first year (only 4 new programs at 4 our of 5 HSs). Now parents are mandated to "opt-in" in order to get school bus service this school year. If you move there in late spring, you are automatically "opted-out".