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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  That's a bummer... and we work nowhere near Wheaton so it's also not easy to pick up from activities.  It's really too bad b/c right now we're at a magnet middle school and the activity bus options are actually pretty good...

Re: Northwood, I'm actually trying to view the holding school situation as a potential plus.  DS would be in a brand new school for 2 years, followed by another brand new school for the next 2 (though I hear the Woodward sports fields won't be ready next year).  And for us, the bus ride to Woodward doesn't seem to be much worse (or perhaps better), than the ride alllll the way up Georgia Ave to Wheaton.  It would be nice, though, if we could see the bus schedules for Northwood next year before having to submit our rankings.[/quote]

Why these two schools and why not your home school?  That way they can walk or get the bus.  Don't make it more complicated then it needs to be.  There are lots of activities in HS, and not all meet right after school so you need to take that into consideration, especially with sports and band.  Even if Northwood is at Northwood for another year, the plan is to switch them to Woodward so they can tear it down.[/quote]

A lot of high school club type activities meet at lunch time (vs. all afterschool in MS), so it might be worth checking whether that is the case at Wheaton or Northwood.  Activity bus may not matter as much.

This is OP - Our home school is Einstein and there are only a few CompSci classes and nothing tech/engineering, so it's just not a good fit for our kid compared to Blair/Wheaton/Northwood. And it's still not close to our house at all, though the activity bus does drop about a mile away.[/quote]

They have plenty of Computer Science but for Engineering you go to Wheaton.   You need to plan to pick up your kid if it's an issue.  It's called parenting.  Why are you so opposed to driving your kid if you don't want them at the home school?  Remember they are only having a handful of electives so you don't need a ton of variety, just enough.[/quote]

DP. Is this the same poster who asked why I didn’t pick my kid up I wonder? And the person who mis read my post and thought we lived 1.3 miles from school?

News flash - some people work. Some people cannot rearrange their schedules to chauffeur their teenage children around. How can you not understand this?

Are you just a dumb stay at home parent oblivious to the demands on working parents? Someone from MCPS who has failed at arranging good activity bus routes from Wheaton?[/quote][/quote]

A lot of high school clubs meet at lunch in many schools.  Maybe check out specifics at Wheaton and Northwood to determine whether activity bus is really an issue.[/quote]

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