Loudoun Co school board votes to eliminate busing to TJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The freshmen may not have started but they may have turned down offers at AOS or AES and I don't know that they can get those spots back. So a rising freshmen who committed to TJ might have to return to their base school and not AOS or AES because they no longer have a transportation to TJ. And what about Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors?

There's no way any incoming freshmen and/or their parents didn't know this was *at least* a possibility if not a probability. It's been debated in Loudoun extensively for quite awhile with one particular community vocally demanding busing services and the vast majority of community taxpayers saying, I'm sorry, we're paying $1M+ per year for WHAT?? If you want your kid to go to TJ, YOU drive them there. You've undoubtedly put in a great deal of effort to get them accepted, why stop there?

What a fallacious argument. There's been over 30 years of precedence that transportation would be provided so long as LCPS offered TJ as an option. When removing transportation was previously discussed, it was for new applicants, not existing students. This was a callous, highly unethical move.

[Anonymous]

I really can’t believe the entitlement here. You get a free education that rivals any elite private school in the country but aren’t even willing to take on the costs of your own transportation and instead expect your neighbors to pay for it? Pull your heads out of your you-know-wheres and model some self-sufficiency for your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The freshmen may not have started but they may have turned down offers at AOS or AES and I don't know that they can get those spots back. So a rising freshmen who committed to TJ might have to return to their base school and not AOS or AES because they no longer have a transportation to TJ. And what about Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors?

There's no way any incoming freshmen and/or their parents didn't know this was *at least* a possibility if not a probability. It's been debated in Loudoun extensively for quite awhile with one particular community vocally demanding busing services and the vast majority of community taxpayers saying, I'm sorry, we're paying $1M+ per year for WHAT?? If you want your kid to go to TJ, YOU drive them there. You've undoubtedly put in a great deal of effort to get them accepted, why stop there?

What a fallacious argument. There's been over 30 years of precedence that transportation would be provided so long as LCPS offered TJ as an option. When removing transportation was previously discussed, it was for new applicants, not existing students. This was a callous, highly unethical move.

Put down the thesaurus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really can’t believe the entitlement here. You get a free education that rivals any elite private school in the country but aren’t even willing to take on the costs of your own transportation and instead expect your neighbors to pay for it? Pull your heads out of your you-know-wheres and model some self-sufficiency for your kids.

Fair play to them if they tell families UP FRONT that transportation is not included. Then the families have all the information and can decide for themselves if it's worth it or not. Offering transportation and then taking it away after the fact is not fair play. It's not entitlement to expect what was offered. Do you even know what the word means? Probably not since 'fallacious' is too big and scary a word for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really can’t believe the entitlement here. You get a free education that rivals any elite private school in the country but aren’t even willing to take on the costs of your own transportation and instead expect your neighbors to pay for it? Pull your heads out of your you-know-wheres and model some self-sufficiency for your kids.

Fair play to them if they tell families UP FRONT that transportation is not included. Then the families have all the information and can decide for themselves if it's worth it or not. Offering transportation and then taking it away after the fact is not fair play. It's not entitlement to expect what was offered. Do you even know what the word means? Probably not since 'fallacious' is too big and scary a word for you.

It is only offered for one year at a time. You can’t expect it to be guaranteed for longer than that.

[Anonymous]

All the kids going live in one neighborhood so they might as well carpool. Also, they can all afford cars and/or their own transport. So ridiculous to bus your kid an hour each way everyday just for bragging rights.

[Anonymous]

OP, I think you are being perfectly reasonable. I’m so sorry this happened and I’m sorry that you are rudely being roasted on this board. A change like this should be prospective, affecting only those who apply in 2019 forward. I hope you can get it solved!

[Anonymous]

Is there a link showing they eliminated busing?

[Anonymous]

Google it. It was front page in the Loudoun Now Newspaper

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the kids going live in one neighborhood so they might as well carpool. Also, they can all afford cars and/or their own transport. So ridiculous to bus your kid an hour each way everyday just for bragging rights.

This isn't true.

[Anonymous]

Meh. The lawsuits will decide this. Not providing bus transport didn't work for Arlington and it won't work in Loudoun.

[Anonymous]

I have a better idea - eliminate TJ for Loudoun co altogether. It's ridiculous that kids from the outer reaches of the county get bussed so dang far. I can't imagine the expense.

Your kid going there is YOUR choice. YOU pay and figure out the transportation. I don't want my tax dollars supporting this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh. The lawsuits will decide this. Not providing bus transport didn't work for Arlington and it won't work in Loudoun.

Any link? I only see that Arlington is proposing that Non FARMS kids pick the cost of transportation to TJ. Did someone sue and win?

[Anonymous]

I can see most are Asian kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh. The lawsuits will decide this. Not providing bus transport didn't work for Arlington and it won't work in Loudoun.

Any link? I only see that Arlington is proposing that Non FARMS kids pick the cost of transportation to TJ. Did someone sue and win?

Maybe the lawsuit was regarding parents having to pay the TJ tuition. In the end there were no cut to Arlington buses this year. Since there are only two buses (that sometime combine loads) there is really no way to just bus FARMS kids, if there were any.