Kids Ride Free SmarTrip cards, is there another way to get them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! I just filled out the form linked to my child’s MS and he had it two days later. I think the kids are where the process breaks down. If you are giving your kid money, are you sure s/he doesn’t have the card and is just pocketing your money?

I"m the OP. I wasn't even giving my kid money, I was electronically putting money on a smart trip card for him. Wilson didn't have any form to fill out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow! I just filled out the form linked to my child’s MS and he had it two days later. I think the kids are where the process breaks down. If you are giving your kid money, are you sure s/he doesn’t have the card and is just pocketing your money?

No, the problem is that they don’t allocate the cards to the schools where kids actually commute properly. So my kid’s heavily IB ES has a glut of them, but HSes like Wilson where virtually everyone commutes are like 1,000 short. It’s insane.

This!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! I just filled out the form linked to my child’s MS and he had it two days later. I think the kids are where the process breaks down. If you are giving your kid money, are you sure s/he doesn’t have the card and is just pocketing your money?

The conjecture and parental accusation on this thread has been such classic, toxic DCUM. It’s been in the news that schools did not receive enough cards: https://wamu.org/story/18/09/27/d-c-schools-dont-enough-transit-cards-kids-city-says-not-shortage/#.W60LsTWV3dt.twitter. For example, DCI was sent 448 cards for over 1000 students. Tom Sherwood was tweeting about it, and I think the Kojo Nnamdi show covered the issue. But even before the Kids Ride Free program, there were problems last year with distributing the DC One cards. Ridership data shows that approximately 6,000 trips were affected on October 1, 2018. ANC Commissioner Evan Yeats contacted DDOT Director Marootian on 7/12 anticipating card distribution problems based on what the city experienced last year. Then DDOT canceled all summer distribution of the cards.

Don’t come on her with slings and arrows for other families while being completely ignorant of the facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow! I just filled out the form linked to my child’s MS and he had it two days later. I think the kids are where the process breaks down. If you are giving your kid money, are you sure s/he doesn’t have the card and is just pocketing your money?

The conjecture and parental accusation on this thread has been such classic, toxic DCUM. It’s been in the news that schools did not receive enough cards: https://wamu.org/story/18/09/27/d-c-schools-dont-enough-transit-cards-kids-city-says-not-shortage/#.W60LsTWV3dt.twitter. For example, DCI was sent 448 cards for over 1000 students. Tom Sherwood was tweeting about it, and I think the Kojo Nnamdi show covered the issue. But even before the Kids Ride Free program, there were problems last year with distributing the DC One cards. Ridership data shows that approximately 6,000 trips were affected on October 1, 2018. ANC Commissioner Evan Yeats contacted DDOT Director Marootian on 7/12 anticipating card distribution problems based on what the city experienced last year. Then DDOT canceled all summer distribution of the cards.

Don’t come on her with slings and arrows for other families while being completely ignorant of the facts.

You are awfully worked up about this. Dramatic much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow! I just filled out the form linked to my child’s MS and he had it two days later. I think the kids are where the process breaks down. If you are giving your kid money, are you sure s/he doesn’t have the card and is just pocketing your money?

The conjecture and parental accusation on this thread has been such classic, toxic DCUM. It’s been in the news that schools did not receive enough cards: https://wamu.org/story/18/09/27/d-c-schools-dont-enough-transit-cards-kids-city-says-not-shortage/#.W60LsTWV3dt.twitter. For example, DCI was sent 448 cards for over 1000 students. Tom Sherwood was tweeting about it, and I think the Kojo Nnamdi show covered the issue. But even before the Kids Ride Free program, there were problems last year with distributing the DC One cards. Ridership data shows that approximately 6,000 trips were affected on October 1, 2018. ANC Commissioner Evan Yeats contacted DDOT Director Marootian on 7/12 anticipating card distribution problems based on what the city experienced last year. Then DDOT canceled all summer distribution of the cards.

Don’t come on her with slings and arrows for other families while being completely ignorant of the facts.

So then what is the purpose of this thread? If it is discussed widely then what’s this thread about? I wasn’t attacking OP. I merely suggested that her child might have done what I did as a kid. My kid is at Deal, while not Wilson it isn’t a tiny school either. Relax and stop looking to be offended.

[Anonymous]

The purpose of the thread was to ask if there's another way to get the cards; there isn't. While in past years there have been summer distribution events, the only way to get the cards this year is through your child's school. The schools did not have enough KidsRideFree cards to hand out before the DCOne cards deactivated on 9/30.

[Anonymous]

My kid at Wilson still doesn't have a card and has taken to asking station managers to let him on the metro.

He filled out a form and was told to come back in 48 hours. He has been back three times and the person who has the cards has not been there.

I have called Wilson twice and left messages asking for guidance for my student. Calls have not been returned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid at Wilson still doesn't have a card and has taken to asking station managers to let him on the metro.

He filled out a form and was told to come back in 48 hours. He has been back three times and the person who has the cards has not been there.

I have called Wilson twice and left messages asking for guidance for my student. Calls have not been returned.

That's unacceptable. I'd send an email to the assistant principle.