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Yikes -- sorry! I wasn't lecturing you at all -- I said I agree it was bad news for anyone that needs to get into work by 9:30. I am absolutely the last person that would say anything is easy for working parents. We've totally re-shuffled our child care situation to deal with the earlier start times. You said the NIH neighborhood, and I know the commuting around there pretty well, so I was trying to be helpful. I don't really think of the RH are as the NIH neighborhood, so I misunderstood where you are. [/quote]

That's the point, PP - I don't live in the RH neighborhood. I live east of Connecticut in North Chevy Chase, prime dumping ground for NIH traffic headed to the Beltway. These neighborhoods are zoned for Rosemary Hills. Don't get me wrong - RHPS is a wonderful school. But it is already a logistical hassle for those of us whose kids are only zoned for that school because the county decided three decades ago that one small part of Chevy Chase/Bethesda would be desegregated. (Somehow this concern doesn't extend to the rest of lily white Bethesda.) Commuter traffic, mostly from NIH, already makes doing pickups from afterschool activities into an hour-long expedition for just a couple of miles of travel.

Now the logistical hassle becomes more difficult because of the later bell times - too late for public transportation routes nearby, too late for many of us to get to our offices on time. It's not just about the commute downtown - a single mom in our neighborhood needs to be at her job in Bethesda at 9am. It was doable without paying for before-care under the previous system; not anymore.

I said in my first post, I'm glad that someone is thinking about bell times for middle schoolers and HS students. It's an absolutely reasonable issue. But the BOE opted for the 20 minute delay [u][b]not [/b][/u]because it was the best option for everyone but because it was the only no-cost option. Except it does impose a cost - on working parents - without bringing much benefit to the kids it is supposed to help.[/quote]

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