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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in NE but getting closer on the waitlist. How do people from across the city get there? I would definitely need my kid to take public transportation. [/quote]

Where in NE. The D6 goes from Stadium/Armory pretty much straight to MacArthur (with a stop at Union Station and in Chinatown if your kid is coming from Brookland or elsewhere in NE). But it takes an hour from RFK, probably still about that if you take metro to grab it closer to downtown.

A lot of kids take it though. Even kids from NW take it after school to get to Georgetown or connect to metro or a bus heading uptown.[/quote]

NP but that is a hike.  No wonder tardiness is so bad in DC.[/quote]

I wouldn't be surprised if MacArthur ends up having high absentee rates among OOB kids simply because it is so far from the other side of the city. When school is an hour bus ride away from Ward 6 - and even further from Ward 7 & 8 - those kids who are edge-cases are going to be tempted to just skip school. HS kids show up more frequently when their school is nearby and easy to access.[/quote]

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