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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live a couple blocks from Wells/Coolidge and take the kids to Lafayette to ride bikes. Even on the weekends with no traffic it's not close and there wouldn't be any reasonable metro option.

Are middle schools and high schools across the city that far from people's homes or are you just trying to be upsetting to Lafayette parents.

I think Wells/Coolidge will be appealing to those of us in the neighborhood overtime and like the idea of peers living close by. [/quote]

I'm a Lafayette parent, and I agree that Wells sounds like it could be an appealing option for MS given the size of Deal. But I am also concerned with exactly the point you raised. My child could walk to Deal from our home and easily take a city bus. But getting to Wells would be a long distance, and you can't walk/ride bike...Military is the only viable through road and it doesn't have sidewalks in some sections across the park.

(And I will just stop the trolls in their tracks...No, Lafayette parents aren't all so rich that they can afford a nanny to chauffeur their middle school students.  :D  Sometimes the hyperbole about the obscene wealth in the NW makes me chuckle.)[/quote]

Dedicated WMATA bus. Shepherd kids have been doing reverse commute for 20+ years with no issues. Sherrill road is another avenue. [/quote]

They won't do one for the Wells students in Brightwood.[/quote]

It drives me NUTS that the city has supported a "Deal bus" for years and years to facilitate travel for a certain group of kids to the most crowded middle school in the city, but that the line for the entire rest of the city is that there is no school-based public transportation. [/quote]

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