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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the issue for this area that may not have happened for your rural school is traffic.

So if the school is 20 minutes away by car, that could mean 40 min during morning rush hour and 60 minutes on a bus with multiple stops.

Our HS is 2 miles away and the bus takes 20 minutes (about 10 of which is traffic delays.)

Also, people reasonably get annoyed when there is a much closer school that they are not zoned for. [/quote]

Yes, understood-- when I refer to travel times, I mean actual real travel times in real conditions.  So for your example at the top, if the bus ride takes 60 minutes I would call it a 60 minute bus ride (and one that's too long to be acceptable), I wouldn't call it a 20 minute one just because that's how fast you can get there in a car in no traffic.

So what I'm asking is whether it is generally considered uncommon and unreasonable for kids to have to travel 20-30 actual minutes each way to their school by bus (or on foot), in practice.  Not whether it's unreasonable to have a "20 minute commute" that in reality is actually a 40 or 60 minute commute-- I agree that is unreasonable (unless freely chosen to get to a magnet, and even then 60 minutes seems like a lot.)[/quote]

Well, you can look up the MCPS bus routes and see.  I would guess non-magnet routes are generally 20-40 minutes.  They are designed to minimize number of buses, not get kids to school the most efficient way possible. So it will depend if you are the first stop or the last and if you live in a neighborhood where a bus will be full of kids in 2-3 stops or if it takes several stops to fill a bus.
Do most people consider this reasonable? I don't know. But if you are referring to the boundary study, yes people get upset at longer commutes, wouldn't you?[/quote]

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