Total travel time and energy to and from Wheels on the bus song for baby: about a number of hours.
"The first day I went along to school, I was like, do I actually want to do this? " Freeman, 16, said. But the ride rapidly became routine, and now Freeman doesn't hesitate to shoot down the notion of trading the two-hour trip to the science and technology magnet school for your 10 minutes it would take him to access his local high school.
It was once that students with the longest bus rides were include those with rural addresses. Today, however, increasingly more of the longest school bus commutes fit in with suburban students, willing to put in the time so as to attend a prestigious magnet school.
"Oh, I think it's more than worth it, " said Freeman, a senior citizen at Thomas Jefferson. "I'm very happy at this school. It's among those opportunities that comes to maybe a lucky few students. "
Sometimes the size of the trips that students are able to endure even surprises adults.
"I'll tell you when I felt it -- upon that rare occasion when youngsters miss the bus, and Now i'm taking them home. I'm contemplating, 'Wow, "' said Montgomery Blair Secondary school Principal Phillip Gainous. Long commutes have become routine at the Silver Spring senior high school, one of the largest throughout Montgomery and home to magnet programs in communications and science that lure students from along the county.
School officials across the region strain to keep regular, in-boundary school bus rides under a couple of hours. But that has no displaying on magnet school commutes, which easily stretch longer. Students learn how to make the best of it: One recent morning, a selection of Thomas Jefferson freshmen huddled around a tiny light clamped to a math textbook to analyze for a test. Another pupil strummed a guitar. Still others dozed to music from their portable CD players.
Montgomery Blair once offered a friend program that gave far-flung students safe places to be if the roads were tied up with bad weather or injuries. But the program died out from lack of use, Gainous mentioned. "We don't do that ever again, because the kids are very much accustomed to traveling or waiting at the school, " he said. "They just sleep or do their research. "
Grace Chung, a 15-year-old Thomas Jefferson sophomore, tries to squeeze in certain study time on the coach. But she's seen far more intricate maneuvers: A friend once made a full poster for spirit week, complete with glitter, during the commute to school.
"She had her glue and her glitter. She would pour it from the glue and then pour it the government financial aid the jar -- I don't think she spilled a single bit of glitter, " she said.
Grace's starting school is Chantilly. Like any kind of traffic-hardened veteran, she separates her commuting time into "good visitors days" and "bad traffic days and nights. "
"Sometimes if traffic is really good, we get there in 8 a. m., " vacation of about a half-hour, Sophistication said. "And sometimes we make it right before the bell rings" on 8: 30. On a recent icy morning that spawned dozens of car accidents and backups, Grace got to school at 9: 30.
She sees the positives. "You make plenty of friends on the bus. I can take homework that I don't discover how to do and say, 'Here, guide me. ' There's some math whizzes for the bus. It's like study area. "
In Prince William County, 18-year-old Alan Hogan's hour-long bus ride is more like those of old: No magnetic school, he just lives within the rural, western part of the county. The stars are still bright when Hogan gets around the bus each morning. He attends Stonewall Jackson Secondary school, near Manassas. Prince William is creating a high school for western-area individuals, but it won't open until 2004.
Until then, the kids just get used to the journey.
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