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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've seen lots of little kids on public transportation, Metro and Metrobus.  They're often wearing matching school shirts and lanyards and such.

[b]I think it's a pretty neat part of living in the city; learning to successfully navigate it at a young age strikes me as useful.[[/b]/quote]

Yes, public transit use is NORMAL for all ages.

The field trip destination programs will often pay for buses, but I'll tell you that these contracted bus services can be extremely unreliable. Because they have to drive in from G-d knows where in the not-close 'burbs before they get to the school, they're very often quite late. They're also not necessarily so good about picking up on time. And they may be too big for the routes that would otherwise be most logical, and have to go way the hell around so they can stay on wider streets.

It's a crying shame so many DCPS and now charter schools are not so convenient to Metro stations, because Metro is otherwise the far superior option, even considering the logistics of being responsible for many little kids. [/quote]

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