private transportation service to drop off child at school?

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Anonymous wrote:PP why are you so mean and who said you were perfect. Hiring a sedan service if you are not able to get your kids to some activities is not the worst thing in the world..esp if it's a service that does background checks for other contracts. I know several families that are doing what they need to do to get by and ridicule is not helpful. Perhaps instead of giving working parents grief you may offer to help some of them out since your time is so free.

I have a deal for any SAHM who is willing to make a win-win deal with me. I will drop your DC off along with mine every morning so that you can sleep in or get caught up with whatever. In return, can you handle pickup and drop my DC off at my home? And it gets better, occasionally if you have to be somewhere for any reason after pickup, my non-driving nanny will happily host your kid and mine for an after-school playdate. Now, isn't this a lot better than name-calling, ladies?

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Kangaroo coach specializes in transporting kids to schools in the Baltimore area. I guess I'm a bad parent because I was considering it for my kindergartener. Only students not the bus. To me it was not that different from the public bus but I was concerned with my child being on a bus with HS. The school greats the students at drop off.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP why are you so mean and who said you were perfect. Hiring a sedan service if you are not able to get your kids to some activities is not the worst thing in the world..esp if it's a service that does background checks for other contracts. I know several families that are doing what they need to do to get by and ridicule is not helpful. Perhaps instead of giving working parents grief you may offer to help some of them out since your time is so free.

I have a deal for any SAHM who is willing to make a win-win deal with me. I will drop your DC off along with mine every morning so that you can sleep in or get caught up with whatever. In return, can you handle pickup and drop my DC off at my home? And it gets better, occasionally if you have to be somewhere for any reason after pickup, my non-driving nanny will happily host your kid and mine for an after-school playdate. Now, isn't this a lot better than name-calling, ladies?

If my kid went to school with your kid, I would happily take you up on this offer (now, if only the baby recognized that time was to sleep in!).

[Anonymous]

I have a deal for any SAHM who is willing to make a win-win deal with me. I will drop your DC off along with mine every morning so that you can sleep in or get caught up with whatever. In return, can you handle pickup and drop my DC off at my home? And it gets better, occasionally if you have to be somewhere for any reason after pickup, my non-driving nanny will happily host your kid and mine for an after-school playdate. Now, isn't this a lot better than name-calling, ladies?

If my kid went to school with your kid, I would happily take you up on this offer (now, if only the baby recognized that time was to sleep in!).

Thank you! That is kind. While I really can't help with the baby, why don't you (and anyone else similarly inclined), call the parents of a classmate with two working parents and offer this? Make a new friend for life and teach your own child a life lesson about mutual support and cooperation.

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My kids go to Burgundy farm in Alexandria. It has very limited bus service, and a number of Arlington parents got together an arrived a daily limo service for their children. It's no different from hiring a small private bus service. They have the same driver every day and the limo has a regular route. Cost split between eight or so parents is apparently very reasonable. Children in the limo range from young (6 or 7) to middle school ages, and both the kids and parents seem quite happy with it. (My own child has occasionally ridden in it for playdates with the "limo kids"). OP, don't know where you are geographically, but if you contact Burgundy Farm I bet they could put you in touch with the limo company or some of the parents who use it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes this happens--I had to take a sedan service recently and the Driver told me that he regularly picks up kids from some of the area private schools (Mclean)..takes them to music lessons and then drives home. While I thought it was unusual, the more I thought about it, the more I could see it happening. If you are a working family and you want someone with professional driving credentials to take your child..seems to be a good route esp. if the kids are a little older and you have some comfort on background of the driver. I think this guy takes the same kids every week..ie it isn't a different person everytime. I liked him-I can dig out his card if you are interested.

i need this for my teenagers how did you find this type of service?

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Coach Rider in DC does drop offs and pick ups and does checks on the drivers and uses "green" vehicles only. The specifically advertisie school driving services - friends at a so-called "big 3" use them daily.

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coach rider website (from google) doesn't seem to work. btw, some schools do have buses for the younger classes - even Sidwell between its campuses. Cathedral schools seem frozen on this issue.

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Potomac, JPDS, also have useful routes -others?

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Does CHDS have bus route(s)?

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I do not know if anyone is likely to look at this thread again, but FWIW I just spoke with someone at Barwood Taxi in Montgomery County, who tells me that they will transport children to and/or from school alone provided that the child is at least 12 years old.

A dad in Silver Spring

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Anonymous wrote:
As a middle school student in the early 80's our parent sent my sibs and I to NCS, Sidwell and STA in a a hired van. We stopped to pick up a couple of girls from Immaculata and a few from one other all girls school in Bethesda, I think. We all lived in upper NW DC and our families were not rich, but comfortable. I recall my mom saing it was @ $100 a month. We only did it during the winter months, as I recall. The guy driving was ANCIENT. I don't think the parents worried about being left alone because all the kids had sibs. Someone should start something like that now! Although the insurance rates would be brutal. None of us suffered any emotional trauma from being picked up in a van, as far as I know.

I personally think this is brilliant. We are trying to figure out how to make the distance to Bethesda work for us so our DD can attend the school I attended in Bethesda, although we live in NoVA. I'm sure if we found enough parents between here and there with the same issue, it could work.

This is not outsourcing parenting as someone insinuated. It's finding a solution for only having 24 hours in the day, 8 of which I need to be in the office so I can pay for that tuition.

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This is very popular in the Caribbean, so popular that some SAH parents end up buy mini buses
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If you do have to drive and wait for kids, I suggest a subscription to audible.com, which you can play on your iphone/iPad etc -- has helped preserve my sanity during my commute.

[Anonymous]

For the individual who originally posted the request for transport to Potomac, please contact. I am also desperately trying to figure out how to transport my child to a school in Potomac. I would love to share a car service or arrange transport together. 202-686-0920