Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 12:21     Subject: Kid sports and RTO
Anonymous wrote:Start getting everyone comfortable with Lyft. I use it all the time for my high school age kids. It's kind of painful to pay for, but it's reliable. Sorry, OP. This sucks.


+1 (or Uber of course)...Waymo has started in DC if you want to remove the human driver from the equation.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 11:38     Subject: Kid sports and RTO
Start getting everyone comfortable with Lyft. I use it all the time for my high school age kids. It's kind of painful to pay for, but it's reliable. Sorry, OP. This sucks.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 11:14     Subject: Kid sports and RTO
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We have always carpooled with 3-4 other families…in office and WFH.

Usually means you drive one practice every two weeks on average…games are weekends.

Why is it so few people arrange carpools?


Not OP but for DD’s current team, practices are 30 min away and the closest player lives 20 minutes from us in the opposite direction. There are not any kids on the team who attend the same school. Carpooling can be difficult if you are talking about older kids and club sports. It’s why we said no to some teams, which you also can do. There is the balance between letting your kids participate in things and your sanity if you don’t want to buy your oldest a car, which we did.


Unless your kid is truly playing on some elite team, why pick this club team?

Pick a club team where everyone generally lives near each other.



NP. Our local team is corrupt and the coach for my kid’s age is incompetent. Plus they are in a lower division. As much as I hate driving, its worth it.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 11:04     Subject: Kid sports and RTO
Anonymous wrote:At a neighboring large Fairfax County school, they didn't have buses for the baseball team so the parents had to carpool to get their kids to away games and back. Our school has several waves of baseball practice- varsity gets to practice first while JV starts at 6.



Our coach has JV and Varsity practice staggered, so Varsity starts and 3:30 and JV at 4:30 and then they just overlap for an hour. JV team just hangs out at school and does homework or some go to the gym for that hour.

Our team has buses for all games within conference, and you only need transport for non-conference away games. I guess us parents are very trusting because 1/2 the varsity team can drive, and those kids generally take the other 1/2.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 10:47     Subject: Kid sports and RTO
Kids don't participate in things that the family can't do.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 10:46     Subject: Kid sports and RTO
At a neighboring large Fairfax County school, they didn't have buses for the baseball team so the parents had to carpool to get their kids to away games and back. Our school has several waves of baseball practice- varsity gets to practice first while JV starts at 6.