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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They posted slides for some of the topics at the 12/4 board meeting.  One of them is on the transportation of kids "grandfathered" in as part of phasing, and it appears to recommend that transportation NOT be provided.  They estimated it'd cost $10.4m to do so.[/quote]

Considering they were unwilling to spend $1 Million for reasonable middle school start times, I'm not surprised. Perhaps they could offer drop off points like they do for TJ? Like one or two busses from each elementary school?[/quote]

Have they ever looked into combining middle and HS routes where feasible? I’m thinking in places where there aren’t too many if any split feeder kids from MS-HS and the middle and HS are close to one another. So like Irving and WS, South County, Twain and Edison, Cooper and Langley etc. I wonder if they could realize some transportation savings or maybe get at least those middle schools to start at the same time as the high schools. I rode on a combined middle-HS bus in the afternoons growing up and it was fine. HS got on first at the high school and sat in the back. Then they drove to the middle school and picked up the middle schoolers and they sat in the front. The schools were only about a mile apart so it worked well. [/quote]

No.

The middle school busses pick up starting at 6:30.  The high school busses pick up an hour later.  Both middle school and high school busses are packed.

No one would be happy with that, and tgey would resent the grandfathered families.

If you want your kid grandfathered, you should provide transportation, especially for elementary families doing it to keep kindergartners at the same school as the 6th grader, or equal quality nearby schools such as families getting rezoned to Lake Braddock wanting to stay at Irving.

Letting them drive to one central pick up, such as a single location might be an option.  But at that point, you are already halfway to the school so you might as well drive the rest of the way in.[/quote]

I’m not in any rezoning discussions right now, I’m more asking in terms of the infamous middle school start times. Like could they start at the same time as the HS now, if the middle and HS kids shared a bus route. [/quote]

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