Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those with with 20+ min commutes, I assume you all are SAHPs, right? DH and I both work full time and I don't know how either of us would add an extra 1.5 hours (when you consider the back and forth) of commuting a day for school.

Car pool and bus make this kind of a non issue

I had a commute from DC to McLean on the bus and at times it could take almost 45 minutes. After a long day of school and sports and a propensity to get car sick there was no way I could do homework on the bus. Made for an exhausting day. As a result, and as someone who works and lives in DC, I will only send my kids to school in DC. Makes a difference for parents who want to volunteer occasionally and see their kids play home games too. Hope this helps, everyone has a different threshold and there are pluses and minuses to commutes, neighborhoods, etc.

I think it really depends on your circumstances and the kid's age.

- HS student going to a school with Metro access, a good bus system, etc., v. a 2nd grader who can't travel solo
- Commute overlaps with yours, so you'd be going that way anyway v. 30 minutes in the opposite direction

(Just looked up the drive time to my HS and it was 30-40 minutes in morning rush hour. But I took a bus with a couple friends and could get work done, so it never bothered me.)