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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are a one-car family in Ward 3 and it's not clear how we'll be served by public transit as our kids progress in DCPS.  We currently drive to Eaton when it's raining, as the closest we can get by metrobus is many blocks away.  Hardy is even less accessible to our apartment and it sounds like the new high school would be worse.[/quote]

Hardy at its current location is pretty accessible on public transit and [b]frankly if you live within Eaton's boundaries there is really no part of the catchment area that is not comfortably walking distance to Hardy [/b]and not sure why people can't walk to school in the rain - our kids have rain coats and walk to school in the rain.

As for the new Palisades HS that is not going to be easy to reach at all.  Presumably a new WMATA bus route will be created but given the limited ways to get there and all of the congestion it will not be an easy place to reach by any means.[/quote]

LOL.  50 minutes walking for a 6th grader is “comfortable”?  And what about in the uphill direction?

No doubt you walked 15 miles barefoot in snow to school…[/quote]

Fine. One half of one side of one block of Rodman is zoned for Eaton. What’s that, 7 houses? How many have school aged children? I’m on Quebec. The children across the street go to Hearst. Because in all its infinite wisdom DC decided boundaries are in the middle of streets rather than alleys so the children directly across from us on the same block don’t attend the same school. Brilliant. Doesn’t diminish the fact that the Hardy commute is vastly different than the Deal commodore those of us at the outer boundary and a commute to the new high school is even worse.

Umm I do think a 6th grader can walk for 50 minutes and can handle walking up a hill (really??) - the only snow here is the apparently snowflake of a kid here though it is usually the parents who shrink from anything hard and not our kids.

In any case I'm pretty familiar with the neighborhood and would be surprised if the slowest of kids would talk 50 minutes to get to Eaton - there is no part of Eaton's boundaries that are more than 2 miles from the school so at worst it is a 30 minute walk.[/quote]

Of course a 6th grader can walk for 50 minutes; that doesn’t make it a practical commute twice a day.

Stick the corner of Rodman and Connecticut in a mapping app and see what you get.  You know not of what you speak.[/quote]

Just checked - it is .9 miles from CT & Rodman to Eaton and 2.2 miles to Hardy.  So the former should be a 15-20 minute walk and the latter about 45 minutes on foot and both can be done in one-third the time on a bike.

Both seem pretty practical or would be for my kids who mostly want to spend their free time staring at a screen.[/quote]

Rodman is not in Hardy’s boundary. My house is at the furthest northern street that is IB for Eaton and thus hardy. It is a hair shy of 2 miles. My kid is not walking that down and up Wisconsin twice a day. It’s a 40 minute+ walk each way. In the dark coming home much of the year if they stay for any after school activities. How would the child ever have time to do homework if they had to devote nearly 2 hours to commuting daily? My 12 year old still needs to sleep at some point. We’ve enjoyed a great 8 years at DCPS, but switching us to Hardy was a difficult pill to swallow. Moving us to the new TBD high school one grade at a time is it for us. We’re applying out to privates and if that doesn’t work we’re going to move. I know you’ll say good riddance, but we are highly involved in the school and surrounding community organizations so this is not a flippant decision for us. [/quote]

Yes, part of Rodman is in Eaton’s boundaries.  Worse are the apartments down the hill on Porter.

But, agreed, it’s crazy to think a child would walk 40-50 minutes along busy streets each way to school.  My kids do have other stuff to do besides computer games, unlike one PP above.  [/quote]

(Eaton boundaries, if you care:  https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Eaton.pdf .  But, again, the main point is that Hardy and MacArthur are way far from much of Eaton when compared to Deal and Wilson.)[/quote][/quote]

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