Heads up - MCPS eliminating most neighborhood bus stops for programs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused. I understand this sucking this coming school year. But for the following year when we switch to regions, there will be buses within your region.
So like my home school is Sherwood for example but if we choose a program at PBHS and kid goes there, they will bus them to PB.

But the bus to PB will be from Sherwood itself, not from a neighborhood stop. So if you can't walk to Sherwood, then what.

[Anonymous]

More of the race to the bottom with our tax dollars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused. I understand this sucking this coming school year. But for the following year when we switch to regions, there will be buses within your region.
So like my home school is Sherwood for example but if we choose a program at PBHS and kid goes there, they will bus them to PB.

But the bus to PB will be from Sherwood itself, not from a neighborhood stop. So if you can't walk to Sherwood, then what.

Man this seems especially bad for downcounty where everyone is far from their home high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Eliminated Stop Replacement Stop
Carderock Springs ES Whitman HS
Brookville Rd & Taylor St Chevy Chase ES
Rosemary Hills ES Woodlin ES
Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS Bethesda ES
Linden Ln & Hume Dr Woodlin ES
Dale Dr & Columbia Blvd Woodlin ES
Dale Dr & Watson Rd Sligo Creek ES
Woodlin ES or Sligo Creek ES
8005 Connecticut Ave (Chevy Chase Library) North Chevy Chase ES
Falls Rd & Glenolden Dr (Potomac Library) 11315 Falls Rd (Potomac Community
Center)
Georgian Forest ES None
Viers Mill ES 4910 Macon Rd (Rocking Horse Center)
Rock View ES Einstein HS
Forest Glen Metro Center Sligo MS
Glen Haven ES Sligo MS
Cavanaugh Dr & Hayworth Dr (Potomac Glen
Clubhouse)
Stone Mill ES
Wootton HS Fallsmead ES or Lakewood ES
10015 Bald Cypress Dr (Willows of Potomac
Clubhouse)
Stone Mill ES or Lakewood ES
16605 Georgia Ave (Olney Indoor Swim Center) Olney ES
3500 Olney-Laytonsville Rd (Olney Library) Olney ES
8700 Piney Branch Rd (Longbranch Rec Center) Rolling Terrace ES
7315 New Hampshire Ave (Takoma Park Rec Center) Rolling Terrace ES or New Hampshire
Estates ES
11701 New Hampshire Ave (White Oak Library) White Oak MS
2201 Fairland Rd (West Fairland Park) Page ES
Stewart Ln & Old Columbia Pike Burnt Mills ES or Key MS or White Oak
MS

This is for TPMS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused. I understand this sucking this coming school year. But for the following year when we switch to regions, there will be buses within your region.
So like my home school is Sherwood for example but if we choose a program at PBHS and kid goes there, they will bus them to PB.

The regional programs are about letting well-off kids (or kids who happen to live very close to their home HS and can walk there) switch schools if they want. They pretend it's about equity, but it's really about more choices for richer kids while leaving the poorer kids behind.

Unless you live right near Sherwood so they can catch the bus there to PB early enough, or you can drive them to PB, they'll probably just have to go to Sherwood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Eliminated Stop Replacement Stop
Carderock Springs ES Whitman HS
Brookville Rd & Taylor St Chevy Chase ES
Rosemary Hills ES Woodlin ES
Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS Bethesda ES
Linden Ln & Hume Dr Woodlin ES
Dale Dr & Columbia Blvd Woodlin ES
Dale Dr & Watson Rd Sligo Creek ES
Woodlin ES or Sligo Creek ES
8005 Connecticut Ave (Chevy Chase Library) North Chevy Chase ES
Falls Rd & Glenolden Dr (Potomac Library) 11315 Falls Rd (Potomac Community
Center)
Georgian Forest ES None
Viers Mill ES 4910 Macon Rd (Rocking Horse Center)
Rock View ES Einstein HS
Forest Glen Metro Center Sligo MS
Glen Haven ES Sligo MS
Cavanaugh Dr & Hayworth Dr (Potomac Glen
Clubhouse)
Stone Mill ES
Wootton HS Fallsmead ES or Lakewood ES
10015 Bald Cypress Dr (Willows of Potomac
Clubhouse)
Stone Mill ES or Lakewood ES
16605 Georgia Ave (Olney Indoor Swim Center) Olney ES
3500 Olney-Laytonsville Rd (Olney Library) Olney ES
8700 Piney Branch Rd (Longbranch Rec Center) Rolling Terrace ES
7315 New Hampshire Ave (Takoma Park Rec Center) Rolling Terrace ES or New Hampshire
Estates ES
11701 New Hampshire Ave (White Oak Library) White Oak MS
2201 Fairland Rd (West Fairland Park) Page ES
Stewart Ln & Old Columbia Pike Burnt Mills ES or Key MS or White Oak
MS

Some of these "replacement stops" are miles away from the current stops. How are kids going to be able to walk that far?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Eliminated Stop Replacement Stop
Carderock Springs ES Whitman HS
Brookville Rd & Taylor St Chevy Chase ES
Rosemary Hills ES Woodlin ES
Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS Bethesda ES
Linden Ln & Hume Dr Woodlin ES
Dale Dr & Columbia Blvd Woodlin ES
Dale Dr & Watson Rd Sligo Creek ES
Woodlin ES or Sligo Creek ES
8005 Connecticut Ave (Chevy Chase Library) North Chevy Chase ES
Falls Rd & Glenolden Dr (Potomac Library) 11315 Falls Rd (Potomac Community
Center)
Georgian Forest ES None
Viers Mill ES 4910 Macon Rd (Rocking Horse Center)
Rock View ES Einstein HS
Forest Glen Metro Center Sligo MS
Glen Haven ES Sligo MS
Cavanaugh Dr & Hayworth Dr (Potomac Glen
Clubhouse)
Stone Mill ES
Wootton HS Fallsmead ES or Lakewood ES
10015 Bald Cypress Dr (Willows of Potomac
Clubhouse)
Stone Mill ES or Lakewood ES
16605 Georgia Ave (Olney Indoor Swim Center) Olney ES
3500 Olney-Laytonsville Rd (Olney Library) Olney ES
8700 Piney Branch Rd (Longbranch Rec Center) Rolling Terrace ES
7315 New Hampshire Ave (Takoma Park Rec Center) Rolling Terrace ES or New Hampshire
Estates ES
11701 New Hampshire Ave (White Oak Library) White Oak MS
2201 Fairland Rd (West Fairland Park) Page ES
Stewart Ln & Old Columbia Pike Burnt Mills ES or Key MS or White Oak
MS

Some of these "replacement stops" are miles away from the current stops. How are kids going to be able to walk that far?

Going from stop with sidewalks to no sidewalks at all.

Taylor’s plan to bump off some kids.

[Anonymous]

I have a rising 6th grader headed to the Eastern magnet. We haven’t heard anything about transportation cb angels. I’m concerned to see the list of replacement stops shared earlier in this thread. We just went from a safe, walkable stop to a 29 minute walk that requires either walking through the woods or along Randolph Road.

This alone makes me want to decline and return to our home school because I can’t leave work early to pick my kid up from this new stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a rising 6th grader headed to the Eastern magnet. We haven’t heard anything about transportation cb angels. I’m concerned to see the list of replacement stops shared earlier in this thread. We just went from a safe, walkable stop to a 29 minute walk that requires either walking through the woods or along Randolph Road.

This alone makes me want to decline and return to our home school because I can’t leave work early to pick my kid up from this new stop.

That stinks. When my kid was at Eastern, we also didn’t have a walkable stop. My kid did afterschool band, so was typically getting home later on the activity bus, which was easier for us to meet after work. Our kid would also sometimes take the bus to the library and wait for us there, but it looks like several library stops are being eliminated too. I now have a different kid at Blair and we still have to figure out every day how they are getting home without an easily walkable bus stop. The transportation challenges for magnet programs are a real family commitment. Are there any public bus routes that might help you?

[Anonymous]

My kid would have to transfer busses at the Wheaton metro station and it would take almost an hour. I don’t even feel like safe waiting at the Wheaton Metro Station sometimes as an adult!

Too bad Eastern won’t share the updated transportation info. There used to be a stop at the Grosvenor metro that many families in our area would use because it was on their way to work and later than the 6:33 pick up at our ES

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taylor is the worst.

But he is making almost $400K. Money equals quality, right?

jack Smith was making $275K per year when he left in 2021. Now this, with Taylor. How did the superintendent's salary get so out of control?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are they so focused on the stops being at schools? Often those are not the most central places within the school's boundaries-- they could pick locations that are actually walkable to larger numbers of kids if they tried.

If the bus doesn’t show up, kids aren’t unsupervised in the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are they so focused on the stops being at schools? Often those are not the most central places within the school's boundaries-- they could pick locations that are actually walkable to larger numbers of kids if they tried.

If the bus doesn’t show up, kids aren’t unsupervised in the neighborhood.

Think about the neighborhoods without sidewalks. Kids will be walking in the streets. Guess Taylor hasn't talked to anybody in the county about public safety.