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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the buses are full for an hour then they need more buses at that time.

Well yes, but today is the first day of this school year, and the first day of increased enrollment from last year.

While they sort it out, figure out another way for your kid to get home. Maybe he stays in the library and starts homework. Maybe he walks 10 minutes so he can take another bus, or catch the same bus earlier.

The weather was lovely today. Sitting outside for an hour, is hardly "HORRORS".

Its horrors because I’m projecting that this will be an issue during the cold months

It's the bus. If you thought it would be reliable, you must realize now that it won't be. Go ahead and complain to WMATA, your council member, and if you want to, the school (that one isn't likely to help). But in this day and age, calling this minor inconvenience a horror is laughable.

NP but this is a very weird take. "Our public transit system is an unreliable joke, and none of our tax-payer funded institutions are likely to do anything about it, but you are dumb for being upset by this situation."

Your added context should make OP *more* angry, not less. A kid having to wait 2 hours for a regularly scheduled bus in order to get home from school is not a "minor inconvenience." It's a major inconvenience and complaining is merited.

Anonymous wrote:Or the OP could be a responsible parent and drive their child to school. Black children in ward 8 don’t have dedicated buses to get to school so why are white residents in northwest given a dedicated metro bus?

?? MacArthur does not have dedicated Metro buses.

This is a frequent issue at many schools. Metro bus drivers don't want to deal with kids. So they just drive on by. This has been happening for YEARS.

So yes, OP, I would talk to your councilmember about it.

Anonymous wrote:Or the OP could be a responsible parent and drive their child to school. Black children in ward 8 don’t have dedicated buses to get to school so why are white residents in northwest given a dedicated metro bus?

Same for Ward 5. Pretty much only ward 3 gets this kind of treatment. It's total BS.

DC is at a different school and this happens all year.

Or the OP could be a responsible parent and drive their child to school. Black children in ward 8 don’t have dedicated buses to get to school so why are white residents in northwest given a dedicated metro bus?

I love DC!

HORRORS?

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Anonymous wrote:When sports and activities start up, there won't be so many kids leaving right at dismissal.

But the buses are full before they hit the school. So doesn't matter if it's one kid or 100 waiting. I would definitely contact the authority. They don't seem to have a plan to ramp up already if there are no pickups AT the school at that hour.

They are full of MacArthur students who walked up stream.

This is an opportunity for OP's kid to learn to problem solve. He can walk 10 minutes. He can stay inside the school building. He can join an activity so he's not leaving right at dismissal.. He can wear a coat.

Or they can fix the pathetic service provided.

How dare we fix it??? 😆 I bet of it was their kid though it would be another tune.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When sports and activities start up, there won't be so many kids leaving right at dismissal.

But the buses are full before they hit the school. So doesn't matter if it's one kid or 100 waiting. I would definitely contact the authority. They don't seem to have a plan to ramp up already if there are no pickups AT the school at that hour.

They are full of MacArthur students who walked up stream.

This is an opportunity for OP's kid to learn to problem solve. He can walk 10 minutes. He can stay inside the school building. He can join an activity so he's not leaving right at dismissal.. He can wear a coat.

😆 literally he just started 9th grade so yes he can do all of those things. I asked a specific question which was answered. So thank you 😊

Contact the school and make them aware of the issue. The school absolutely will try to help.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When sports and activities start up, there won't be so many kids leaving right at dismissal.

But the buses are full before they hit the school. So doesn't matter if it's one kid or 100 waiting. I would definitely contact the authority. They don't seem to have a plan to ramp up already if there are no pickups AT the school at that hour.

They are full of MacArthur students who walked up stream.

This is an opportunity for OP's kid to learn to problem solve. He can walk 10 minutes. He can stay inside the school building. He can join an activity so he's not leaving right at dismissal.. He can wear a coat.

Or they can fix the pathetic service provided.

+1
All kids can't walk upstream and fit in the finite number of buses provided. Come on. Are you even thinking this through before you type?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When sports and activities start up, there won't be so many kids leaving right at dismissal.

But the buses are full before they hit the school. So doesn't matter if it's one kid or 100 waiting. I would definitely contact the authority. They don't seem to have a plan to ramp up already if there are no pickups AT the school at that hour.

They are full of MacArthur students who walked up stream.

This is an opportunity for OP's kid to learn to problem solve. He can walk 10 minutes. He can stay inside the school building. He can join an activity so he's not leaving right at dismissal.. He can wear a coat.

Or they can fix the pathetic service provided.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When sports and activities start up, there won't be so many kids leaving right at dismissal.

But the buses are full before they hit the school. So doesn't matter if it's one kid or 100 waiting. I would definitely contact the authority. They don't seem to have a plan to ramp up already if there are no pickups AT the school at that hour.

They are full of MacArthur students who walked up stream.

This is an opportunity for OP's kid to learn to problem solve. He can walk 10 minutes. He can stay inside the school building. He can join an activity so he's not leaving right at dismissal.. He can wear a coat.

Thank you all for the help.