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Michael Volynets, parents of 11-year-old
Kira, share the driving responsibility
Changes in parental lifestyles have
affected the pool. More spouses work-
ing outside of the home has meant
more need to get children to the Hillel
parking lot before the first class bell.
Bobbie Lewis said her riders "actu-
ally like to get to school early" now
that other children are there also. The
school is buzzing with activity by 8:05
a.m. and "they like to get there and
hang out or go to their lockers."
The volume level on the ride
home from school has varied, from
the little kids falling asleep, Einhorn
said, to Hannah Lewis and Emily
Einhorn not being able to shut up,"
Lewis said.
The ride home on Tuesday, the day
before graduation, was a quiet one,
which Einhorn and daughter Emily
said isn't much of a departure from
the norm.
"This year is quieter than most
because the only siblings we have get
along," Donna Einhorn said.
Emily said, "Two boys are usually
tough because they fight with each
other. Usually, people will take their
pencils out and start doing homework
on the ride."
"There was always a nice mix" of
older and younger students, Einhorn
said. "There were a few problems with
the girls fighting when they were 11
or 12 but, all-in-all, it's a nice group
of kids. I'll miss that part," she paused
for a beat, "but I won't miss paying
tuition."
That's changed too, of course. In
1987, when the Einhorns started, the
basic Hillel charge was $3,500; now
it's $7,875.
The car pool is essential for the
Hillel families. One-student, one-car
would vastly overtax the parking lot,
already considered too small for all the
traffic coming in and out of the 720-
student school on a daily basis plus
Farmington school buses to handle
kids from that district.
The hardest thing, Bobbie Lewis
said, is "to remember when you
switched with someone else so you
don't have to leave the house to pick
up kids."
The pool has never had an accident
or any really serious problems,
although Einhorn said schedules have
been reshaped from time to time to
accommodate pregnancy, broken
bones and surgery.
The riders work out their preferred
searing arrangements, and it rarely
varies. On Tuesday, Kira Volynets sat

quietly in the very back of the massive
blue Lincoln Navigator, while
Benjamin and Nathan sat in the mid-
dle sear next to Adina. Emily sat up
front with her mother. Usually, Adina
sits in the back with Kira, while
Hannah Lewis sits with the boys, but
an orthodontist appointment changed
the mix.
"I usually talk to Adina, Nathan .
and Benjamin," said Kira, who's in the
sixth grade. Emily said Hannah's usu-
ally pretty quiet.
Even though Emily gets the front
seat when her morn drives, she gets no
control of the radio. She usually puts
on whatever CD is in there." Tuesday
was the Backstreet Boys, the teenaged
heartthrobs that Einhorn likes.
The carpool's reputation for
dependability is making it self-perpet-
uating. When Hannah Lewis and
Emily Einhorn depart to Berkley High
School in September, two families,
each with a child completing the sev-
enth grade, will replace them. When
those two graduate, two more families
are already penciled in to join for the
2000-2001 school year.
That scenario is not unlike the one
that allowed Kira Volynets to join the
carpool in 1994.
Her family moved into the
Huntington Woods home next door
to the Einhorns when she was starting
the second grade. That family was part
of the carpool, and the Volynets
jumped in.
"When people in the neighborhood
knew someone was leaving, they'd call
and try to get in," Lewis said. We are
the area carpool," Einhorn said.
"There's not a lot to pick and choose
,,
from.
The kids make it easy on the par-
ents when it is time to go home, gath-
ering in the same spot every day in
front of the school.
Scheduling has been easy; each of
the five families gets two runs to Hillel
each week. And now that 1-696 can
get traffic from the eastern suburbs
like Oak Park and Huntington Woods
to the western ones like Farmington
Hills, the drive itself has eased consid-
erably.
But even with that advancement,
the Lewises had to make a sacrifice to
keep the carpool alive.
"My husband and I drove every
morning in order to keep the car-
pool going," Lewis said of the year
all three of their kids were at Hillel
at the same time. "It's been that
good a carpool that we wanted to
keep it going." fl

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