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[quote=Anonymous]OP, the bus situation this year has been really bad.   They don't have enough bus drivers.

My child also has a long bus ride for his TAG school -- over an hour in the morning and 45 min in the afternoon!

First of all -- keep track of the arrival times of the school bus.   60 minutes late is completely unacceptable!   Contact the transportation office and let them know when your bus is late and that buses arriving home 1 hour late impacts your child's ability to keep up with homework.

You have already contacted the student's teacher I presume?   If so, keep that up -- let her know how long your child's day is and how she has been having to deal with school bus rides that are very long.  I think the bus rides are much longer this year than teachers may have been used to last year or in previous years, or in previous schools (I believe some teachers at GWES are new due to the expanded program.  If they had been teaching at neighborhood schools they may be used to children having only a 20 minute ride home.)

Also contact the school principal.   Let her know that your child is struggling, not with the CONTENT of the schoolwork and homework, but with the AMOUNT, or at least the lack of time.  Let her also know the impact that the late buses and the long bus ride are having on your child's ability to complete homework.   Homework should not be assigned jut to prove rigor.  There is a misbelief out there that gifted and talented students need homework piled on higher and higher, but this is not necessary, especially if it is essentially busywork and is practicing skills your child has already shown mastery of!

I wouldn't think that your child cannot handle the rigor of this school.   It doesn't sound like she is struggling at all with the content, and you don't have her enrolled in all sorts of afterschool activities.   The bus situation is really not working this year for a lot of us in PGCPS, especially those with children in the magnet/specialty schools.   I think you should let the principal know, try to get some kind of reduced workload for your child especially on days when the bus is 60 minutes late!   Also contact PGTAG and join:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pgtag/

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