New to DCPS/charters, but a simple question

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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.

Jeff, this thread no longer has anything to do with schools and should be removed. This is not a political thread.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Jeff, this thread no longer has anything to do with schools and should be removed. This is not a political thread.

Agreed. Having said that, once someone introduces negative politics about one political candidate (in this case it was introduced against the orange one) it's not unfair for someone to respond against the other candidate. It's unfortunate, but look who started the snowball fight.

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at what age do people have their kids start riding metro or public buses on their own?

[Anonymous]

I know families that started in 5th grade. At the beginning of the year, they'd meet together at a bus stop with their kids, and started sort of a "buspool." By the end of the year, the kids were all pretty savvy.

This was families on the Hill sending kids to Latin.

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Anonymous wrote:I know families that started in 5th grade. At the beginning of the year, they'd meet together at a bus stop with their kids, and started sort of a "buspool." By the end of the year, the kids were all pretty savvy.

This was families on the Hill sending kids to Latin.

I live near Takoma Educational Campus, about 2 blocks from the metro. A good number of kids seem to commute there via metro starting in 1st or 2nd.

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By themselves in first grade?

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Anonymous wrote:The city buses don't have adequate transportation options to the schools. There's at least one area of the city that has five or six charters clustered together and almost no bus service. Even with the public transit options available, commuting by public transit makes some students have 2 hour plus commutes to their schools (DCPS OR Charter). That already stops access for a large number of students whose parents don't have the time or the means to take them on epic multi-bus and metro trips across the city.

Every other city in the country, pretty much, is capable of organizing bus service. The surrounding burbs are capable of organizing bus service.

This is not a charter school only issue. This is a city-wide issue, and should be at the forefront of anyone who actually believes in more than lip service to the idea that charters are there to provide equal opportunities to all students.

What area of the city is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:By themselves in first grade?

Yep. Often an older child is leading a group of littler ones barely tall enough to see over the turnstile. If you are at the metro at the right time of day you see 20-40 kids heading up the road from the metro to the school with a pretty big spread in ages.

Maybe they started with an older sibling or something -- who ran ahead?

[Anonymous]

Back to the original question... Our school doesn't have a lot of info on the website vs what they send out directly to parents or via the PTA list serve. Try joining that at least for the school where you are enrolled. Our aftercare for instance is actually run by the pta. In some other schools it's private or not directly from DCPS. Lots to complain about, but not sure that's one to indict the whole system on.

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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.

It's not hostile. And that's not why I know better than you, defensive mother, who talks about walkability while.driving your child to their neighborhood dcps that's five blocks from your house. It's amazing, the number of ib families thqt drive to our neighborhood school. Amazing and sad.

New York provides busing for any elementary school child who attends a school more than one mile from their house, if they attend a school within that borough. They do this by setting out bus routes at the beginning of the year. And I'd honestly be surprised if they spend 100million on it. Dc spending that much just on special Ed students though is no surprise. Dc spends absurd amounts.for not all that much, perhaps because they are run by the same kind of math geniuses that give us defense department budgets.

Maybe all these basis kids taking calculus in ninth grade will eventually produce some accountant s capable of calculating the real.cost of goods and services, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Anonymous]

New York City was spending $105M on yellow school buses way back in 2000 - and an additional $57 M on discounted MTA cards for students. So yeah, it's expensive.

http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/schoolbus.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ah right, all people living in Wards 7 and 8 are fat and unhealthy. Nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ah right, all people living in Wards 7 and 8 are fat and unhealthy. Nice.

No. More overweight people in DC are in wards 7 & 8 than in other wardscc. Many of them are children. Let's think of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New York City was spending $105M on yellow school buses way back in 2000 - and an additional $57 M on discounted MTA cards for students. So yeah, it's expensive.

http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/schoolbus.pdf

And dc has how many more.students than NYC? Oh, right. Dc doesn't have more students.

Dc lights money on fire and burns it for warmth for its school budgets. I'm merely suggesting they funnel some.of the money to.slmething that would help kids get to school. The absentee rates I've seen at both dcps and dc charters all speak to a population of kids who have real trouble getting to school when the weather is bad, or when their transit options fail. You can snark about overweight kids all you want; and I'm sure you will because that's the kind of horrible snob you are... (Meanwhile, driving your own kids to school in your Tahoe), but this is just about equal access, which we don't have.