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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The city could theoretically also at least run a city bus on a loop from Ward 7 or 8 past the 3 cluster schools.  Adults would need to ride w smaller children.  But it would be better than nothing.[/quote]

This is why it was controversial. The city can absolutely not do that (unless they can somehow justify it as an actual bus line), because they don't run private buses for anyone else. They are definitely not going to have their first such line be from OOB to one particular school. The Watkins bus was extremely suis generis, but a unique situation where it was just running the bus between the schools themselves.[/quote]

I think PP was suggesting they just make sure there is a bus line that runs from across the river, past Watkins (with a stop at Watkins) and past Peabody (with a stop at Peabody). Other people could also ride it (maybe it would extend into downtown, I don't know) but the idea would be that it would serve the needs of BOTH the OOB parents coming in from Wards 7/8 as well as the IB families with kids at Peabody and Watkins.

It would be better than nothing if they are going to keep the boundary as is. Otherwise, killing the shuttle between effectively kills the cluster, and Peabody effectively becomes an auxiliary ECE school for parents who will move to L-T or Brent at 1st, and Watkins effectively becomes a stand-alone 1-5 school that primarily service OOB students from Wards 7 and 8.

Maybe people are fine with that, I don't know, but they should either formalize that arrangement or actually do something to unite the cluster again. [/quote]

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