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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The transportation budget for SpEd students alone is about $100 million.  We already have the most expensive school district (per pupil) in the country.

There is no budget for this.  Walk to your neighborhood school.  If you don't like it, metro/bus/bike/uber to your school of choice.

If you want to live in one part of town and send your child to school on the other side of town, that really should be on you.  Get your DC One Card and deal with it.  The rest of us are already subsidizing your choices.  [/quote]

Some of us who can walk to our neighborhood school have some thoughtful concern for others who may not be able to walk to their own neighborhood school, just to add another perspective.[/quote]

Thoughtful concern is one thing, and I'm happy to share that.  However, the idea of ballooning the transportation system in DC/DCPS to create school bus routes that are convenient for parents who want a personal system to get their child to a far-away school is more than I'm on board with.  Over half of Americans are overweight.  You want your child to get to school a mile away?  Walk off some of those cheeseburgers.[/quote]

What your proposing is not neighborhood school, but the IB school. Less than 20% of kids go to their IB school. I was here in the 90s when we battled Mississippi for the worst schools in the nation with your "go to your IB school rational" for the 80% OOB or in charters, they are not a mile away. The average is 2 miles.

As for your "overweight"comment, DC for the past 3 years is the most fit city in the US.

That being said, you must get your facts the same place as Donald Trump, his ass. [/quote]

How thick are the blinders you're wearing?  This may be the "most fit city in America" according to "Men's Fitness" or "Huffington Poo" but we've got a lot of overweight, unhealthy people in DC - they just don't reside in upper NW (you intellectual twit).  Lots of them are schoolchildren, in places you've never visited, like Wards 7 & 8.

Once you pull your own head out of your own ass, come back.  [/quote]

Ah right, all people living in Wards 7 and 8 are fat and unhealthy. Nice. [/quote]

No.  More overweight people in DC are in wards 7 & 8 than in other wardscc.  Many of them are children.  Let's think of them.[/quote]

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