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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Help me understand the issue. If you live far enough away from your home high school (the one you’re zoned for) to get bus service from your neighborhood to your home school, will that bus get you to your home school in time for you to catch a bus from your home school to your regional special program? Or is the issue that the buses to regional special programs leave home schools early enough that your neighborhood bus won’t get you to your home school in time?

If you live too close to your home school to qualify for busing from your neighborhood to your home school, then the burden was already on you to come up with your own transportation to your home school, so there’s no difference between getting yourself there to attend that home school versus getting yourself there to catch a bus to your regional special program.

Currently, how many locations do high school magnet buses depart from besides home high schools?[/quote]

Lets say I live in Mt.Prospect, Travilah:

Mt.Prospect neighborhood to Wootton (wherever it may be) - 6 miles

Prior situation: 
Mt.Prospect  to Travilah ES - 0.5 to 1 mile (group stop for magnets) - my kid walks or I drop kid at the ES which is close by and kid goes to the magnet program
Travilah ES to RM - 7 miles 
Travilah to Churchill - 7.5 miles

Now if it was buses only from the high schools to the regional magnets, kid first catches a neighborhood bus to Wootton/Wootton@Crown - 6 miles
Then from Wootton, kid catches another bus to go the next 2.5 to 3.5 miles.

If there is traffic on Wootton Pkwy/Great Seneca/Sam Eig/Muddy Branch, kid misses the bus that goes from Wootton/Wootton@Crown to RM or Churchill or Rockville HS.

You also have the dozens of buses in the high schools.

How is this feasible?

It was a nightmare when we had a half day last week and all the magnet buses and elementary school buses were at the ES.

Can you imagine how it would be in a high school? All these high school buses coming in and the regional magnet will leave on time regardless of whether all the kids got in or not. And then what happens? Are the parents supposed to come and pick up the kids to drive them to their chosen magnet school?

If my kid got into RM before these regional magnets, there would have been a group bus stop at Travilah ES.

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Nope, it is even worse than this.  The kid is almost certainly not going to be able to take a neighborhood bus to Wootton and then transfer there to the regional program bus (unless MCPS wants to piss off all HS families by shifting all neighborhood bus routes 20+ minutes earlier)-- by the time the neighborhood buses get there, the regional program bus will most likely be gone.  So either you would need to drive your kid to Wootton (or all the way to the regional program), or if you can't/won't, then your kid can't attend.[/quote]

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