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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We drive or walk.  I have a K and 2nd grader.

Reason.  Bus comes at 8:19am.  School is only 0.7 miles away through the neighborhood.  School does not start until 9am.  My kids routinely sleep until 8am.  We depart at 8:45am.  Gives us a more relaxed morning to walk or drive.  I only go through neighborhood roads that are unclogged/empty.

I pick-up in afternoons because a lot of time they want to hang out on playground with friends if we don't have sports' practices or games after...or they do an enrichment which I have to pick them up anyway.

We've talked about the bus and may use it in the future.  For now-this works well for us.

I WAH so it is easy for me to get them.[/quote]

[b]What school district gives you a bus if you are only 0.7 miles away[/b]. I'm the process of appealing with my school district because I WANT a bus and we are right on the distance border (0.8 miles.)[/quote]

FCPS does. It's not just about the distance from the school. It's about the roads that have to be crossed. Students at my school live in an apartment complex that is a 10 minute walk from school. Yes, 10 minutes. But that walk is along a very busy road and crosses in front of a shopping plaza. As kids walk along that busy road, they would cross side streets where there are no crosswalk markings or lights. Putting 150 kids on that walk during morning rush hour would be a death march.

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