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Total travel time for it to and from Wheels on the bus song for baby: about 4 hours.



"The first day I attended school, I was like, do I really want to do this? " Freeman, 20, said. But the ride easily 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 that 10 minutes it would take him to get to his local high school.

It was once that students with the longest bus rides were include those with rural addresses. Today, however, a growing number of of the longest school bus commutes are part of suburban students, willing to put in the time as a way to attend a prestigious magnet classes.

"Oh, I think it's worth the cost, " said Freeman, a elderly 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 prepared to endure even surprises adults.

"I'll show you when I felt it -- about that rare occasion when youngsters miss the bus, and I'm taking them home. I'm considering, 'Wow, "' said Montgomery Blair Senior high school Principal Phillip Gainous. Long commutes have grown routine at the Silver Spring school, one of the largest inside Montgomery and home to magnet programs in communications and technology 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 bearing on magnet school commutes, which easily stretch longer. Students learn 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 check for a test. Another university 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 stay if the roads were tied up with bad weather or damages. But the program died from lack of use, Gainous explained. "We don't do that nowadays, because the kids are very much accustomed to traveling or waiting for the school, " he said. "They merely sleep or do their research. "

Grace Chung, a 15-year-old Thomas Jefferson sophomore, tries to squeeze in some study time on the bus. But she's seen far a lot more intricate maneuvers: A friend once made a complete poster for spirit week, including glitter, during the commute for you 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 bottom school is Chantilly. Like any traffic-hardened veteran, she separates the girl commuting time into "good traffic days" and "bad traffic times. "

"Sometimes if traffic is basically good, we get there in 8 a. m., " a vacation of about a half-hour, Sophistication 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 got to school at 9: 40.

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, guide me. ' There's some math whizzes around the bus. It's like study corridor. "

In Prince William State, 18-year-old Alan Hogan's hour-long bus ride is more like those of old: No magnetic field school, he just lives inside rural, western part of the particular county. The stars are still bright when Hogan gets on the bus each morning. He attends Stonewall Jackson Secondary school, near Manassas. Prince William is building a high school for western-area learners, but it won't open until finally 2004.

Until then, the kids just become accustomed to the journey.