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Anonymous wrote:Effective public transportation? The capital city/sela/ideal/hope matrix. Two buses, one goes to fort totten, the other to takoma metro. No provisions if the metro is out, no direct route to downtown, or any useful transfer points, both buses run (roughly and not really) every "twenty" minutes, which is more like every hour in practice, Both are packed with schoolkids busting their asses to get to and from their schools in the least efficient way possible.

Charters are optional. DC should not recreate trans to get kids to optional schools.

-charter crosstown parent

Equal access is not equal if kids can't get to school. Show me how to take public transportation to cmi, again. Show me the number of kids who manage to do it. Show me how many of them dont make it when the weather turns. We don't have crossing guards at major intersection, we don't pay for bussing (although what is paid for special Ed kids would cover all children easily), and we don't have equal access, since a child's ability to attend the school of their choice, dcps or charter, is entirely determined by their parents' ability to get them there.

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Anonymous wrote:Effective public transportation? The capital city/sela/ideal/hope matrix. Two buses, one goes to fort totten, the other to takoma metro. No provisions if the metro is out, no direct route to downtown, or any useful transfer points, both buses run (roughly and not really) every "twenty" minutes, which is more like every hour in practice, Both are packed with schoolkids busting their asses to get to and from their schools in the least efficient way possible.

Charters are optional. DC should not recreate trans to get kids to optional schools.

-charter crosstown parent

Equal access is not equal if kids can't get to school. Show me how to take public transportation to cmi, again. Show me the number of kids who manage to do it. Show me how many of them dont make it when the weather turns. We don't have crossing guards at major intersection, we don't pay for bussing (although what is paid for special Ed kids would cover all children easily), and we don't have equal access, since a child's ability to attend the school of their choice, dcps or charter, is entirely determined by their parents' ability to get them there.

No. The budget for special needs wouldn't cover personal buses from all around the city to be mapped to CMI, sorry. Have you seen the map of where kids come from for CMI? In my NW neighborhood, kids go to school to cap city, Haynes, Stokes, CMI, Latin, ITS, Bridges, DCB, YY, Cap Hill, Key, Hearst, Appletree, Bethune, Bruce Monroe, and some privates just to name a few. How many buses would there need to be just to service one neighborhood? Multiply that by what 100? What time would these buses need to leave the neighborhood? You think this could be done with $100m? I don't even see how it would be logistically possible.

You're correct, PP. Nonetheless, people will hate you for your use of logic, because some of them think it's more important to "think" with your feeeeeelings.

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Anonymous wrote:Effective public transportation? The capital city/sela/ideal/hope matrix. Two buses, one goes to fort totten, the other to takoma metro. No provisions if the metro is out, no direct route to downtown, or any useful transfer points, both buses run (roughly and not really) every "twenty" minutes, which is more like every hour in practice, Both are packed with schoolkids busting their asses to get to and from their schools in the least efficient way possible.

Charters are optional. DC should not recreate trans to get kids to optional schools.

-charter crosstown parent

Equal access is not equal if kids can't get to school. Show me how to take public transportation to cmi, again. Show me the number of kids who manage to do it. Show me how many of them dont make it when the weather turns. We don't have crossing guards at major intersection, we don't pay for bussing (although what is paid for special Ed kids would cover all children easily), and we don't have equal access, since a child's ability to attend the school of their choice, dcps or charter, is entirely determined by their parents' ability to get them there.

No. The budget for special needs wouldn't cover personal buses from all around the city to be mapped to CMI, sorry. Have you seen the map of where kids come from for CMI? In my NW neighborhood, kids go to school to cap city, Haynes, Stokes, CMI, Latin, ITS, Bridges, DCB, YY, Cap Hill, Key, Hearst, Appletree, Bethune, Bruce Monroe, and some privates just to name a few. How many buses would there need to be just to service one neighborhood? Multiply that by what 100? What time would these buses need to leave the neighborhood? You think this could be done with $100m? I don't even see how it would be logistically possible.

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Anonymous wrote:Effective public transportation? The capital city/sela/ideal/hope matrix. Two buses, one goes to fort totten, the other to takoma metro. No provisions if the metro is out, no direct route to downtown, or any useful transfer points, both buses run (roughly and not really) every "twenty" minutes, which is more like every hour in practice, Both are packed with schoolkids busting their asses to get to and from their schools in the least efficient way possible.

Charters are optional. DC should not recreate trans to get kids to optional schools.

-charter crosstown parent

Equal access is not equal if kids can't get to school. Show me how to take public transportation to cmi, again. Show me the number of kids who manage to do it. Show me how many of them dont make it when the weather turns. We don't have crossing guards at major intersection, we don't pay for bussing (although what is paid for special Ed kids would cover all children easily), and we don't have equal access, since a child's ability to attend the school of their choice, dcps or charter, is entirely determined by their parents' ability to get them there.

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Anonymous wrote:Effective public transportation? The capital city/sela/ideal/hope matrix. Two buses, one goes to fort totten, the other to takoma metro. No provisions if the metro is out, no direct route to downtown, or any useful transfer points, both buses run (roughly and not really) every "twenty" minutes, which is more like every hour in practice, Both are packed with schoolkids busting their asses to get to and from their schools in the least efficient way possible.

Charters are optional. DC should not recreate trans to get kids to optional schools.

-charter crosstown parent

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Anonymous wrote:But I know, this is just dandy with you, even though you drive Larlette to school every day.

Why did you have children that the rest of us are supposed to raise for you, because you can't be bothered to nail down the details of getting snowflake to school?

Anonymous wrote:But I know, this is just dandy with you, even though you drive Larlette to school every day.

Anonymous wrote:Effective public transportation? The capital city/sela/ideal/hope matrix. Two buses, one goes to fort totten, the other to takoma metro. No provisions if the metro is out, no direct route to downtown, or any useful transfer points, both buses run (roughly and not really) every "twenty" minutes, which is more like every hour in practice, Both are packed with schoolkids busting their asses to get to and from their schools in the least efficient way possible.

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Anonymous wrote:New York City was spending $105M on yellow school buses way back in 2000 - and an additional $57 M on discounted MTA cards for students. So yeah, it's expensive.

http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/schoolbus.pdf

And dc has how many more.students than NYC? Oh, right. Dc doesn't have more students.

Dc lights money on fire and burns it for warmth for its school budgets. I'm merely suggesting they funnel some.of the money to.slmething that would help kids get to school. The absentee rates I've seen at both dcps and dc charters all speak to a population of kids who have real trouble getting to school when the weather is bad, or when their transit options fail. You can snark about overweight kids all you want; and I'm sure you will because that's the kind of horrible snob you are... (Meanwhile, driving your own kids to school in your Tahoe), but this is just about equal access, which we don't have.

I'm still waiting for you to give an example of a street address/block where the neighborhood school is not walkable and their is no wmata option to make up for it.

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Anonymous wrote:New York City was spending $105M on yellow school buses way back in 2000 - and an additional $57 M on discounted MTA cards for students. So yeah, it's expensive.

http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/schoolbus.pdf

And dc has how many more.students than NYC? Oh, right. Dc doesn't have more students.

Dc lights money on fire and burns it for warmth for its school budgets. I'm merely suggesting they funnel some.of the money to.slmething that would help kids get to school. The absentee rates I've seen at both dcps and dc charters all speak to a population of kids who have real trouble getting to school when the weather is bad, or when their transit options fail. You can snark about overweight kids all you want; and I'm sure you will because that's the kind of horrible snob you are... (Meanwhile, driving your own kids to school in your Tahoe), but this is just about equal access, which we don't have.