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Yeah but why? Is there more traffic at those times? Does it conflict with other activities that the parents plan to do?

metildaa 8y ago
If school starts later, then they may be dropping their kid off at school at 9am or 9:30am rather than at 8am. This makes it hard to get iinto the office in a reasonable time. Its also not quite the same problem for those of us who ride the bus, parents aren't trapped schleping kids on the bus. I'm surprised Boston Schools don't use the local mass transit system for middle & high schoolers, we've been pushing for that change in Seattle for years (all highschool students get ORCA cards finally). Why needlessly duplicate service?
- azeotropic 8y ago
  They do have MBTA passes for middle/high school students to take mass transit (https://www.mbta.com/fares/reduced/student-charliecards https://www.mbta.com/fares/reduced/student-charliecards)
  - irrational 8y ago
    Are you suggesting wealthy white kids should take public transportation?
  - metildaa 8y ago
    This looks to be a program for a subset of students. I'm specifically referring to giving every student a transit pass. Familiarize them early with mass transit, de-normalize driving kids to school. Even in the well to do neighborhoods of Seattle, most of the students from upper income families are riding the bus to school after elementary. Driving your kid to school is very odd, even for the most wealthy. That being said, the private Catholic schools in Seattle are a whole different ballgame, they're singlehandedly bringing back long gone diseases as the archdiocese up here is very permissive of anti-vaxxers.
    - azeotropic 8y ago
      The 'subset' of students is middle-school and older who are eligible for busing. If you're in elementary school or in walking distance, the school won't buy you a pass. It's opt-in and busing is the default, but from 6th grade on most kids take the T. I don't think driving your kids to school in Boston is unreasonable. Some school buses were chronically late, delivering kids to school up to an hour after the start of the first class. It may surprise you to learn that Boston is not Seattle. For example, the public schools here are the ones with antivaxxers and diseases you learned about playing Oregon Trail.

If school starts later, then they may be dropping their kid off at school at 9am or 9:30am rather than at 8am. This makes it hard to get iinto the office in a reasonable time. Its also not quite the same problem for those of us who ride the bus, parents aren't trapped schleping kids on the bus. I'm surprised Boston Schools don't use the local mass transit system for middle & high schoolers, we've been pushing for that change in Seattle for years (all highschool students get ORCA cards finally). Why needlessly duplicate service?

azeotropic 8y ago
They do have MBTA passes for middle/high school students to take mass transit (https://www.mbta.com/fares/reduced/student-charliecards https://www.mbta.com/fares/reduced/student-charliecards)
- irrational 8y ago
  Are you suggesting wealthy white kids should take public transportation?
- metildaa 8y ago
  This looks to be a program for a subset of students. I'm specifically referring to giving every student a transit pass. Familiarize them early with mass transit, de-normalize driving kids to school. Even in the well to do neighborhoods of Seattle, most of the students from upper income families are riding the bus to school after elementary. Driving your kid to school is very odd, even for the most wealthy. That being said, the private Catholic schools in Seattle are a whole different ballgame, they're singlehandedly bringing back long gone diseases as the archdiocese up here is very permissive of anti-vaxxers.
  - azeotropic 8y ago
    The 'subset' of students is middle-school and older who are eligible for busing. If you're in elementary school or in walking distance, the school won't buy you a pass. It's opt-in and busing is the default, but from 6th grade on most kids take the T. I don't think driving your kids to school in Boston is unreasonable. Some school buses were chronically late, delivering kids to school up to an hour after the start of the first class. It may surprise you to learn that Boston is not Seattle. For example, the public schools here are the ones with antivaxxers and diseases you learned about playing Oregon Trail.