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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]Geography is a factor. Where are people commuting from or choosing not to commute from?[/quote]

If it take an hour each way, and it's likely way more for us if we use the bus system, that's the equivalent of over two months of work weeks sitting on a bus.  I realize that many kids around the world (and even in MoCo) may view that as normal, or even desirable, for the right school, but that just seems excessive to me.[/quote]

Or...it is additional time your child gets to spend with people who have similar brains?[/quote]
Haha. It is not. Please don’t kid yourself they are interacting on the bus. They all have phones out staring straight ahead. 
The buses are mixed with middle and high schoolers and many many of the kids carpool. My child does the 1 hour plus each way and it totally sucks. On the way there it mean she catches the bus at 6:35. They get there much earlier than school starts. On the way home she takes a bus from Eastern to Blair and then switches buses and that makes it a little over an hour. She leaves at 6:35 and gets home at 4:10 to commute from Gaithersburg. 
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How is a kid from Gaithersburg going to Eastern? If you moved from downcounty to Gaithersburg after your child got in to Eastern, no wonder the commute is so long. We live in Gaithersburg and dc attends MLK. There are no high school students on dc’s magnet bus.[/quote]

[b]TPMS, Eastern and Blair bus are shared, so you definitely have high school students on the bus[/b]
True for not much good interactions on bus, they are mostly  sleeping, on phone or gossiping [/quote]
Is it true for every bus route?
We're in Rockville, child accepted to Eastern, so I've also been wondering about  the bus situation. Is it true that the bus stops at Eastern first, drops everyone off and then TPMS kids catch a shuttle to their school? And it's all in reverse in the afternoon?[/quote]

In the morning they switch at Eastern but I think it’s only middle school kids on bus. In afternoon they switch at Blair and the high school magnet kids are on the bus too.[/quote]
Thank you![/quote]

There are middle school kids getting on with my Blair kid in the am.  My understanding is that it is Blair/Eastern/TP until Blair, Eastern kids switch busses and the bus continues to TP.  This is the Wooten area bus.  Maybe some areas are different?[/quote]

Current bus routes for Eastern magnet are here:
[url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/easternms/departments/Blair%20MAGNET%20BUS%20SCHEDULE%2010-21-19.pdf[/url]
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