<p>Though the one at D’s school is brand new this summer (and freshman orientation was just this week where they formally announced it) it already has fairly active participation. One from where S graduated was wonderful… He was at a fairly isolated school so there was always a flurry of activity over the holidays when the closest “cheaper” airport was 5+ hours away. Lots of offers of parents volunteering their kids to drive, parents offering to drive, parents offering to pick kids up at airports, house them overnight and then transport to bus terminal the next day. One year a kid was “lost” when the bus was stopped due to a mudslide that closed the road and the kid tried to find his own means of transportation from that point. Lots of offers from other parents to help find the kid (whose parent was incapacitated and couldn’t do so herself). The network evolved into a close knit community and continued to do so with each new group of parents. Many parents had kids at other schools and thought this one was the best they had ever encountered. I even posted the question “how did your kid hear about this school” and the admission office ended up using responses in their advertising.</p>