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[quote=Anonymous]I'm also not talking about three year olds. Putting three year olds on a school bus is impractical--at best. In New York, we turned down a G&T spot that was nine miles from our house because I didn't want to put our kid on a bus at five to go that kind of distance. At three, I get it. You either go to your local school, or you drive or take transit. Fair enough.

But kids don't stop needing to get to school at three. In an ideal world, I'd like my ten year old to be able to ride a public bus to school. With other ten year olds. As I did. As far as I'm aware, Deal and Wilson are the only schools that have dedicated public buses? What about just having regular buses that work with school schedules? If you're going to open several charter schools in an area, don't you have an obligation to make sure there's a possibility of taking transportation to that area?

Again, city existing public transportation should be arranged to accommodate options to existing schools. We looked at several charters--and discovered that for many of them there was no reliable, close, and safe bus stop. Nor do the buses connect--if you have to take more than one, you might be waiting 30 minutes for each one. A trip that is less than 2 miles from our house (with no bike lanes--I checked for that too) becomes an epic, four-mile long bus ride, taking two or three buses, or taking the metro too (which adds to the cost enough to make it equivalent to taking Uber.) Or, we have to walk about a mile of it. I'm not opposed to that... but it's somewhat weather-dependent, and it's not a good walk. Busy intersections, heavy traffic.

What shocks me the most is, the charter is one of five charter schools in the immediate area. That's a lot of kids being picked up and dropped off by car. Having crossing guards (they don't). Having a bus that runs directly from the metro to that area (the only bus that runs consistently, not just for rush hour, is about four blocks away--again, with no crossing guards, several complicated intersections, heavy traffic.... And so on.[/quote]

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