If your kid is 13, or close enough to pass as 13, get them an Uber Teen account.

Kid goes home with a friend and maybe then calls you and you call them an Uber.

Anonymous wrote:You pay someone to drive your kid home. This is literally why we have a sitter still for our 12yo.

DP. It's hard to do that for a single day. It's not like you can call an Uber.

You pay someone to drive your kid home. This is literally why we have a sitter still for our 12yo.

I don't know about MCPS, but where I grew up you could hide out in the school library for an hour, maybe two, before they'd get serious about kicking you out.

Anonymous wrote:We're out of bounds so even our bus stop isn't walking distance from where we live. Thus the problem. No issues with DC arriving home alone or being home alone. It's the _getting_ home that doesn't work!

County bus?

Anonymous wrote:We're out of bounds so even our bus stop isn't walking distance from where we live. Thus the problem. No issues with DC arriving home alone or being home alone. It's the _getting_ home that doesn't work!

That's part of the deal when you choose an out of bounds option - one of us works from home on early release days.

- Parent of kid who went to out of bounds middle school and now an out of bounds high school

Check if there’s a bus they can ride to a library, and have them stay there until you can pick them up.

How do they normally get home from school?

We're out of bounds so even our bus stop isn't walking distance from where we live. Thus the problem. No issues with DC arriving home alone or being home alone. It's the _getting_ home that doesn't work!

Anonymous wrote:Some middle schools have after care options.

That sounds incredibly embarrassing.

Can't they walk or take the bus?

Some middle schools have after care options.

They ride the bus or walk?

If you can't get an ES student home, especially on a half-day, you send them to aftercare. But what do you do with a middle schooler when MCPS has a half day and you have to be at work _and_ none of your friends and neighbors are available? Can they stay at school? Or do you just not send them that day?