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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ And, to further complicate matters, our choices within dc all seem to revolve around our child having LESS independence than they would in a nearby walkable suburb. In moco, they'd take the school bus by themselves. If we lived in silver spring, they'd be one of hundreds of kids I see walking alone--and not an outlier, trekking a mile through deserted residential streets. This city is not friendly to its children. The metro is burning, crime is up, and there's not even crossing guards, let alone police, monitoring anything. Its depressing--at ten, I was taking myself across my city to magnet school and now, at ten, my child can't even walk four blocks.

See you in silver spring .[/quote]

I think this depends a lot on your comfort with where you live and PP, you don't sound comfortable in your neighborhood. My high school kids take themselves across town on metro, go to movies on metro etc. - yes, metro has its problems but it's not burning and I would worry more if they were driving around on their own in the 'burbs. When the kids were very young, I walked with them to places in the neighborhood but they gradually expanded their range as they got older. By ten, they were definitely walking a few blocks alone. [/quote]

Our immediate area is quite comfortable, except for the fact that no one is on the strerts. Ever. I don't want to wait until high school for my child to go to the library alone either. It's not a question of waiting for a driver's license to be independent. Its a question of not getting mugged at the rhode island or brookland metros.[/quote]

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