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.
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.
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.