Total travel time for you to and from Wheels on the bus go round and round: about several hours.
"The first day I traveled to school, I was like, do I want to do this? " Freeman, 20, said. But the ride rapidly became routine, and now Freeman doesn't hesitate to shoot down the notion of trading the two-hour vacation to the science and technology magnet school to the 10 minutes it would take him to get to his local high school.
It was previously that students with the longest bus rides were those with rural addresses. Today, however, increasingly more of the longest school bus commutes remain in suburban students, willing to put in the time to be able to attend a prestigious magnet institution.
"Oh, I think it's more than worth it, " said Freeman, a mature at Thomas Jefferson. "I'm very happy at this school. It's one of those opportunities that comes to maybe a lucky few students. "
Sometimes the duration of the trips that students are able to endure even surprises adults.
"I'll explain when I felt it -- on that rare occasion when children miss the bus, and I am taking them home. I'm thinking, 'Wow, "' said Montgomery Blair High school graduation Principal Phillip Gainous. Long commutes have grown to be routine at the Silver Spring high school graduation, one of the largest with Montgomery and home to magnet programs in communications and scientific disciplines that lure students from throughout the county.
School officials across the region strain to keep regular, in-boundary school bus rides under an hour or so. But that has no displaying on magnet school commutes, which easily stretch longer. Students figure out how to make the best of the idea: One recent morning, a band of Thomas Jefferson freshmen huddled around a smaller light clamped to a math textbook to review for a test. Another college student strummed a guitar. Still others dozed to music using their company portable CD players.
Montgomery Blair once offered somebody program that gave far-flung students safe places to remain if the roads were tied up with bad weather or mishaps. But the program died out from lack of use, Gainous claimed. "We don't do that anymore, because the kids are very much accustomed to traveling or waiting for the school, " he said. "They only sleep or do their preparation. "
Grace Chung, a 15-year-old Thomas Jefferson sophomore, tries to squeeze using some study time on the tour bus. But she's seen far more intricate maneuvers: A friend once made a complete poster for spirit week, filled with glitter, during the commute to be able to school.
"She had her glue and her glitter. She would pour it from the glue and then pour it back the jar -- I don't think she spilled a single section of glitter, " she said.
Grace's starting school is Chantilly. Like any kind of traffic-hardened veteran, she separates the woman's commuting time into "good targeted visitors days" and "bad traffic days. "
"Sometimes if traffic is absolutely good, we get there on 8 a. m., " a visit of about a half-hour, Grace said. "And sometimes we arrive right before the bell rings" with 8: 30. On a recent icy morning that spawned a large number of car accidents and backups, Grace made it to school at 9: 30.
She sees the positives. "You make a lot of friends on the bus. I can take homework that I don't know how to do and say, 'Here, help me. ' There's some math whizzes on the bus. It's like study hallway. "
In Prince William Region, 18-year-old Alan Hogan's hour-long bus ride is a lot more like those of old: No magnetic field school, he just lives from the rural, western part of this county. The stars are still bright when Hogan gets around the bus each morning. He attends Stonewall Jackson Senior high school, near Manassas. Prince William is building a high school for western-area college students, but it won't open until eventually 2004.
Until then, the kids just get used to the journey.
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