New to DCPS/charters, but a simple question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The transportation budget for SpEd students alone is about $100 million. We already have the most expensive school district (per pupil) in the country.

There is no budget for this. Walk to your neighborhood school. If you don't like it, metro/bus/bike/uber to your school of choice.

If you want to live in one part of town and send your child to school on the other side of town, that really should be on you. Get your DC One Card and deal with it. The rest of us are already subsidizing your choices.

Some of us who can walk to our neighborhood school have some thoughtful concern for others who may not be able to walk to their own neighborhood school, just to add another perspective.

Thoughtful concern is one thing, and I'm happy to share that. However, the idea of ballooning the transportation system in DC/DCPS to create school bus routes that are convenient for parents who want a personal system to get their child to a far-away school is more than I'm on board with. Over half of Americans are overweight. You want your child to get to school a mile away? Walk off some of those cheeseburgers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one is criticizing charters on this thread. The title has DCPS and charters in it.

The conversation turned to access, providing busing would provide real access to a crazy lottery system, DCPS or charter no matter the location.

Even DCPS that are located near city buses are not accessible to a single parent or a family with two working parents who cannot spend 2 hours in the morning going all over the city to where they lotteried and then getting to their job.

Have you even seen a map where is shows a school and where kids travel to come to that school? Multiply that by hundreds and tell me how a city can begin to have a bus system to accommodate school choice in this city without is paying 50% tax rate to City?

NYC does it. Moco does it. It is really not as complicated as you think.

NYC is not a comparison. MoCo kids have schools miles away, how is this a comparison? Give me one address where the neighborhood school is not walkable AND there is not a city bus accessible? For 95%+ of the time, the neighborhood school is walkable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one is criticizing charters on this thread. The title has DCPS and charters in it.

The conversation turned to access, providing busing would provide real access to a crazy lottery system, DCPS or charter no matter the location.

Even DCPS that are located near city buses are not accessible to a single parent or a family with two working parents who cannot spend 2 hours in the morning going all over the city to where they lotteried and then getting to their job.

Have you even seen a map where is shows a school and where kids travel to come to that school? Multiply that by hundreds and tell me how a city can begin to have a bus system to accommodate school choice in this city without is paying 50% tax rate to City?

NYC does it. Moco does it. It is really not as complicated as you think.

NYC is not a comparison. MoCo kids have schools miles away, how is this a comparison? Give me one address where the neighborhood school is not walkable AND there is not a city bus accessible? For 95%+ of the time, the neighborhood school is walkable.

More like 99.9%.

[Anonymous]

+95% neighborhood ES is walkable or there is city bus. City bus or walkable to MS and HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one is criticizing charters on this thread. The title has DCPS and charters in it.

The conversation turned to access, providing busing would provide real access to a crazy lottery system, DCPS or charter no matter the location.

Even DCPS that are located near city buses are not accessible to a single parent or a family with two working parents who cannot spend 2 hours in the morning going all over the city to where they lotteried and then getting to their job.

Have you even seen a map where is shows a school and where kids travel to come to that school? Multiply that by hundreds and tell me how a city can begin to have a bus system to accommodate school choice in this city without is paying 50% tax rate to City?

NYC does it. Moco does it. It is really not as complicated as you think.

NYC is not a comparison. MoCo kids have schools miles away, how is this a comparison? Give me one address where the neighborhood school is not walkable AND there is not a city bus accessible? For 95%+ of the time, the neighborhood school is walkable.

More like 99.9%.

Exactly. I never understand why parents keep bringing this up. I refuse to bus kids to their "school choice" all across the city. And I speak as someone that is 0.8 mile from neighborhood school and drive across town for charter.

[Anonymous]

People keep mentioning NYC but do they really bus all kids to any school they want to attend in any Burrough in a city school-only bus door to door?

[Anonymous]

I like school choice. We have an excellent transportation system. We have DC One cards so that students can take public transportation for free. NOBODY is prevented from school by transportation. Nobody.

This conversation is ridiculous. Should we all fund your personal uber account?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People keep mentioning NYC but do they really bus all kids to any school they want to attend in any Burrough in a city school-only bus door to door?

No, it's just that hostile "I used to live in NYC so I know better than you" attitude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The transportation budget for SpEd students alone is about $100 million. We already have the most expensive school district (per pupil) in the country.

There is no budget for this. Walk to your neighborhood school. If you don't like it, metro/bus/bike/uber to your school of choice.

If you want to live in one part of town and send your child to school on the other side of town, that really should be on you. Get your DC One Card and deal with it. The rest of us are already subsidizing your choices.

Some of us who can walk to our neighborhood school have some thoughtful concern for others who may not be able to walk to their own neighborhood school, just to add another perspective.

Thoughtful concern is one thing, and I'm happy to share that. However, the idea of ballooning the transportation system in DC/DCPS to create school bus routes that are convenient for parents who want a personal system to get their child to a far-away school is more than I'm on board with. Over half of Americans are overweight. You want your child to get to school a mile away? Walk off some of those cheeseburgers.

What your proposing is not neighborhood school, but the IB school. Less than 20% of kids go to their IB school. I was here in the 90s when we battled Mississippi for the worst schools in the nation with your "go to your IB school rational" for the 80% OOB or in charters, they are not a mile away. The average is 2 miles.

As for your "overweight"comment, DC for the past 3 years is the most fit city in the US.

That being said, you must get your facts the same place as Donald Trump, his ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like school choice. We have an excellent transportation system. We have DC One cards so that students can take public transportation for free. NOBODY is prevented from school by transportation. Nobody.

This conversation is ridiculous. Should we all fund your personal uber account?

True. I mean, it's so easy for some Ward 7 and 8 parents who have to take 2 buses and travel 2 hours to get to some of the better schools on this side of the river. But, I mean. It's free! Who cares if they have to travel hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The transportation budget for SpEd students alone is about $100 million. We already have the most expensive school district (per pupil) in the country.

There is no budget for this. Walk to your neighborhood school. If you don't like it, metro/bus/bike/uber to your school of choice.

If you want to live in one part of town and send your child to school on the other side of town, that really should be on you. Get your DC One Card and deal with it. The rest of us are already subsidizing your choices.

Some of us who can walk to our neighborhood school have some thoughtful concern for others who may not be able to walk to their own neighborhood school, just to add another perspective.

Thoughtful concern is one thing, and I'm happy to share that. However, the idea of ballooning the transportation system in DC/DCPS to create school bus routes that are convenient for parents who want a personal system to get their child to a far-away school is more than I'm on board with. Over half of Americans are overweight. You want your child to get to school a mile away? Walk off some of those cheeseburgers.

What your proposing is not neighborhood school, but the IB school. Less than 20% of kids go to their IB school. I was here in the 90s when we battled Mississippi for the worst schools in the nation with your "go to your IB school rational" for the 80% OOB or in charters, they are not a mile away. The average is 2 miles.

As for your "overweight"comment, DC for the past 3 years is the most fit city in the US.

That being said, you must get your facts the same place as Donald Trump, his ass.

How thick are the blinders you're wearing? This may be the "most fit city in America" according to "Men's Fitness" or "Huffington Poo" but we've got a lot of overweight, unhealthy people in DC - they just don't reside in upper NW (you intellectual twit). Lots of them are schoolchildren, in places you've never visited, like Wards 7 & 8.

Once you pull your own head out of your own ass, come back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like school choice. We have an excellent transportation system. We have DC One cards so that students can take public transportation for free. NOBODY is prevented from school by transportation. Nobody.

This conversation is ridiculous. Should we all fund your personal uber account?

True. I mean, it's so easy for some Ward 7 and 8 parents who have to take 2 buses and travel 2 hours to get to some of the better schools on this side of the river. But, I mean. It's free! Who cares if they have to travel hours.

Fortunately, the majority of charters in wards 7 & 8, and they have proven themselves to be better educators of poor and/or minority children than DCPS is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The transportation budget for SpEd students alone is about $100 million. We already have the most expensive school district (per pupil) in the country.

There is no budget for this. Walk to your neighborhood school. If you don't like it, metro/bus/bike/uber to your school of choice.

If you want to live in one part of town and send your child to school on the other side of town, that really should be on you. Get your DC One Card and deal with it. The rest of us are already subsidizing your choices.

Some of us who can walk to our neighborhood school have some thoughtful concern for others who may not be able to walk to their own neighborhood school, just to add another perspective.

Thoughtful concern is one thing, and I'm happy to share that. However, the idea of ballooning the transportation system in DC/DCPS to create school bus routes that are convenient for parents who want a personal system to get their child to a far-away school is more than I'm on board with. Over half of Americans are overweight. You want your child to get to school a mile away? Walk off some of those cheeseburgers.

What your proposing is not neighborhood school, but the IB school. Less than 20% of kids go to their IB school. I was here in the 90s when we battled Mississippi for the worst schools in the nation with your "go to your IB school rational" for the 80% OOB or in charters, they are not a mile away. The average is 2 miles.

As for your "overweight"comment, DC for the past 3 years is the most fit city in the US.

That being said, you must get your facts the same place as Donald Trump, his ass.

I'm curious. Why do we talk about Trump's back parts as the place we shouldn't go, when everyone knows it's Hillary's lady parts where even her own husband didn't want to go?

I'm no Trumpeter, but this seems to be a double standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like school choice. We have an excellent transportation system. We have DC One cards so that students can take public transportation for free. NOBODY is prevented from school by transportation. Nobody.

This conversation is ridiculous. Should we all fund your personal uber account?

True. I mean, it's so easy for some Ward 7 and 8 parents who have to take 2 buses and travel 2 hours to get to some of the better schools on this side of the river. But, I mean. It's free! Who cares if they have to travel hours.

So now you're proposing that only ward 7 and 8 get bussed to any school in the city? You do know to even attempt this proposal your tax rate would triple and kids would have to leave their hom at 5-6am right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like school choice. We have an excellent transportation system. We have DC One cards so that students can take public transportation for free. NOBODY is prevented from school by transportation. Nobody.

This conversation is ridiculous. Should we all fund your personal uber account?

True. I mean, it's so easy for some Ward 7 and 8 parents who have to take 2 buses and travel 2 hours to get to some of the better schools on this side of the river. But, I mean. It's free! Who cares if they have to travel hours.

So now you're proposing that only ward 7 and 8 get bussed to any school in the city? You do know to even attempt this proposal your tax rate would triple and kids would have to leave their hom at 5-6am right?

No, I'm not proposing that at all. Use the DC One card to avail yourself of the already extensive public transportation system. Walk a step or two. Nothing is more than a quarter of a mile away.