People, things can change, bus routes can be added. I believe Inspired Teaching is working on getting a bus line route added from one of the metro stops. Nothing will be perfect but you have to make do with what you've got.

OK, so basically we don't know where CM is moving. Lol.

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Anonymous wrote:a neighbor who has a child there told me they were going to the old soldiers home

If they are occupying the old space way in the back that a charter school once had, they will be moving again.

Why do you say that?

The newly opened charter school at the time had trailers. It was a few years ago. Maybe CM will be using a building. I'm drawing a blank on the name of the charter school.

The last charter-DOAR- was in one of the Soldiers BLDG. You have to walk/drive thru the campus to get to the bldg. and only access it from the other side of North Capitol, once you go thru security. It will certainly add additional time to your commute.

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Anonymous wrote:The 60 (Fort Totten/Petworth) and the H8 (Mt. Pleasant/Brookland) literally drop you at the doorstep of the soldier's home. The issue is not whether it is accessible by bus, but just that the specific buses are usually accessible to fewer people than the metro is. Same thing with IT--unless you live downtown the G8 is not that accessible, so it reduces the pool to those who live near the bus, or are not daunted by the challenge of 2 buses or bus + metro with a small child.

The H8 is the one that WMATA was telling me to get on, and it said it was a .63 mile walk to the address.

Soldiers home has multiple entrances. I think if you look at a map you'll see the H8 drops you right at the door. The official "address" won't really help you know how close it is. So maybe it is doable?

That is great news. The H8 is pretty convenient to me, so if it drops off right in front of the school, that works. Then I have to figure out how to get to work, which would probably involve walking to the Brookland station since my work is on the red line.

I used whatever official address I could find online. Is the CM building near the bus stop?

Anonymous wrote:Wrong building...keep trying

Oh, I didn't realize someone had said which building it was. Which building is it?

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Anonymous wrote:MV's new location is ~.5 mile from the NoMA metro station on the red line. Certainly walkable.

YY has parent run buses and extensive car pooling.

For the record, I live in between that metro station and MV and I wouldn't make that walk without a gun. But, yeah...it is .5 a mile from the metro.

We live around there too and walk around there all the time with my 6 and 3 yr old. But we're from NYC - Manhattan... it's not a big deal. Guess it depends what you are used to and where you are from.

Wrong building...keep trying

Right, but many folks also wouldn't put an 8 year old on a city bus or metro alone.
So we have to be talking about walking with a parent, right?

The PP didn't say "alone". She was talking about and 8 year old walking .63 miles to and from.

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... you're ok with an 8 yr old walking .63 miles each way to and from school? In DC? I understand your other points, but are you really saying you see this as doable for most families?

Wait. Are you saying it is extraordinary for an 8 year old to be able to walk half a mile? No wonder our country is fat.

I'm pretty sure that poster was saying do you really want an 8 yr old to walk just over 10 city blocks on their own, twice a day. I guess your answer would be yes? I don't think it has anything to do with whether an 8 yr old can actually walk that far or not. I walked home alone further than that when I was 8, but I also didn't live in Washington DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... you're ok with an 8 yr old walking .63 miles each way to and from school? In DC? I understand your other points, but are you really saying you see this as doable for most families?

Wait. Are you saying it is extraordinary for an 8 year old to be able to walk half a mile? No wonder our country is fat.

Totally agree with you...my 2 yo at Franklin Montessori walks 2 miles in the woods during their nature hikes.

Correction: there was public notice in December 2013 advertising the space. It's on the web if you are a true sleuth.

Anonymous wrote:Soooo... you're ok with an 8 yr old walking .63 miles each way to and from school? In DC? I understand your other points, but are you really saying you see this as doable for most families?

Wait. Are you saying it is extraordinary for an 8 year old to be able to walk half a mile? No wonder our country is fat.

I'm trying to understand how CM supposedly scored a federal property as its own -- without competition, without publicity, without public notice.

The Old Soldiers Home is very much federal land. As is Lincoln's cottage and the other land inside they gate.

There has not been a formal disposition of this land with public hearing.

So, where is this rumor of CM = Old soldiers' home coming from? Source. Or is it possibly that there is a non-fed building somewhere in Park View -- that really IS the District's to give away -- and people are confusing it with the federal land?