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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG! Lin Li did his homework and absolutely SKEWERED Taylor and his Regional Programs model and showed how it was a copy and paste failure from Stafford! How embarrassing. [/quote]
You and Lin need better critical thinking skills. Just because access to Blair will become regional does not mean other regions will have no access to magnet programs. Each region will have magnet programs, which expands access.

About the bus system “collapsing” due to what happened at Stafford Co: MCPS’s bus system is well developed and organized. It is strange to assume MCPS will nuke it to implement the regional model. Also, why is Lin assuming that having transferring bus stops will mean a longer commute? The total commute time could still be shorter than a countywide commute with no transfer.[/quote]

By the way, you've never rode the magnet bus a single time or read the statistics of bus time, do you? TPMS and Eastern students need to transfer at Blair every morning and afternoon, and the total time doubles because of the waiting of transfer. It only takes Blair kids one-way about 20 - 25 mins from/to some popular stops in the western county, but 50 mins from/to TPMS for the same station.[/quote]
My kids ride magnet buses every day and I like our bus system. You cannot assume the commute will be longer just because someone has to transfer. [/quote]

Have your kids taken Eastern and TPMS bus on a regular basis? This is the most close scenario to the 1-stop transfer that is going to happen to EVERY special program. As I mentioned above, the transfer takes long, varying and uncertain time. As long as one bus from home to local HS runs into issue, everyone on the second bus needs to wait. [/quote]
You’re assuming that that is going to be a typical scenario under the regional model, and you cannot make that assumption without evidence. Did MCPS publish the new regional bus routes? [/quote]

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