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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you hop on 54, how long does it take right now to go from Wootton to Crown?[/quote]

You can’t hop on on Tide on 54, it doesn’t stop near Wootton .[/quote]

Sure it does. The stop is well inside the walk zone. Depending on where you live, it may be closer to your house than old Wootton.[/quote]

No it doesn’t stop next to Wootton. The closest stop is Darnestown and Research which is a mile away from Wootton and more than 2 miles away for kids who live next to Villages of Rockville for example. The only Wootton kids close enough to walk to the stop are those who live along Hurley. [/quote]

There will be an MCPS bus to Crown for kids who live next to Villages. I'm not clear on the problem/issue.[/quote]

Really? Show me where MoCo said this magical bus is going to be available. [/quote]

Has MCPS put out the bus stop list for Crown already?  The Villages is over 2 miles to Crown (google maps puts it at 3.4 walking) - high school students more than 2 miles to a high school get bus transportation.  There will be MCPS bus transportation from that area.  You are fear mongering for no reason.[/quote]

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I think they are talking about public bus routes for kids that play sports/do other activities before and after school.[/quote]

High schools also have MCPS activity buses for after-school activities.[/quote]

Activity busses are a joke and are useless for anyone who plays a sport. Kids can't play sports unless they are in the walk zone, have a car, have a friend with a car, or have parents who don't work and can come pick them up. That's extremely limiting to single parents or families where both parents work. That's part of the outrage over moving the school and changing a large number of kids from walkers to bussers.[/quote]

OMG What?!? You actually IRL believe that no kids in America can play high school sports unless they are in the walk zone? STOP with the absurdity, honestly. The vast majority of kids going to any public high school take the bus. At Wootton. In MoCo. In MD. In the country. And those kids play sports too! And their parents manage to pick them up or they carpool just like everyone else does. Tons of us work full time, our kids take the bus to Wootton, and our kids play sports. We make it work. Now it's your turn to make it work also. [/quote]

There are ways to make it work but they're  not necessarily feasible for everyone. Parents who knew they couldn't make it work decided to buy houses in a walk zone, that's how they make it work. With this decision, they are no longer in a walk zone. It's great that other students can now walk to Crown, but those parents did not have any expectation that their children would be able to walk to their school when their houses were purchased.[/quote]

We going to have to go private.  I wish our kids could just be bussed to a brand new school with lots of offerings. [/quote]
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