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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, a 13 year old cannot cross the street by herself. Interesting. How is it suppose to work?  Are the bus operators required to drive down one side of the street and then make a u-turn and go down the other side of the street to pick up students. Children will live on both sides of a street. [/quote]

Most school districts have rules about how far students are supposed to have to walk to get to the bus stop, and also about the kinds of streets they need to cross or walk along.  It seems that in this case, PG county's own rules stated that students weren't to cross that particular street at that particular location, where there wasn't a crosswalk.  They committed to picking up Ashley, as well as other students, on the other side of the street, but never provided a bus to do so.

For example, I commute down a busy section of River Road, close to where it crosses into DC.  It appears that MoCo has decided that this street is unsafe for elementary school students to cross, because I see buses heading in both directions in the a.m..

If a school system states that something is unsafe for children, and commits to changing it, then they should follow through on that commitment.  [/quote]

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