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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It's great to say "neighborhood schools should require no buses, and if everyone just attended theirs, we'd have no transportation problems" when nearly half of the public-school student body is enrolled in citywide charters. One out of every two students has to commute somewhere, most likely farther than that student's neighborhood school. It'd be nice if DC actually gave some thought to planning bus routes that would better serve something like half the families in the public school system.[/quote]

This.

We go to a neighborhood school now. A few times a year they make a huge show of having the kids walk or bike to school--usually from pre-designated areas that they are driven to and dropped off. The rest of the year the parents complain about parking. [b]This school is on major express bus routes, and is in a walkable, low-traffic area--so it doesn't even have half the issues these five charters do. And yet... on the topic of having neighborhood kids actually walk to school every day, there is strange apathy. [/b]I understand how impossible it would be to have more than one drop off, have a work deadline, and incorporate a bus ride out of the way into a morning commute vs. a fifteen minute drive... I really do. And yet, the current system doesn't really work either. Those five charter schools with no crossing guards are an accident waiting to happen.[/quote]

There is apathy, because for most people the current system does, in fact, work fine.  Most adults are able to consider things like commute, time, $$$, etc when deciding if they will send their children to a neighborhood school or a charter.
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