"Wolfpack" attacks on random Metro riders

[DistrictSonic]

Originally Posted by gomason

Dc has one of the highest percentages of charter school students in America. So basically no one is in walking distance of school.

I was about to write this, but you did. DC has a school choice provision in place. There are also application HS. So when it gets down to it, the school a kid is going is likely not to be within walking distance.

[Moth]

Originally Posted by DistrictSonic

I was about to write this, but you did. DC has a school choice provision in place. There are also application HS. So when it gets down to it, the school a kid is going is likely not to be within walking distance.

True.

I attended Wilson and it was an easy walk for me. However, the boundaries stretched to- I don't know how far- so you had kids coming from crosstown. There was a special fleet of "Charter Buses" for that purpose.

This was all before Metro really got going. Back then we were allowed to buy school tokens. Came to about 10 cents per ride. We were not supposed to use them on weekends, but most Metrobus drivers did not care if we did.

[Yeadon718]

Originally Posted by Carlingtonian

In the suburbs--hardly at all. Most of suburban Houston or Dallas looks like Fairfax or Rockville.

But in DC itself, you might be right, in that schools are even closer to homes and streets are more walkable. Meaning there's even less reason to have buses.

Most kids in the suburbs either take the cheese bus, parents drive them, or the student themselves drive. In DC its different, most kids take public transit, many crosstown. Back when I was in school I lived in far NE near Deanwood and my school was in Upper NW DC. Had to take two trains and a bus each way every single day.

Another reason why kids shouldn't be walking long distance like that is many of them live in rough neighborhoods and DC is known to have neighborhood rivalries and beefs.