APS DHMS walk zone nuclear option

[Anonymous]

So with proposed boundaries, they are nuking almost the entire DHMS walk zone and shipping them to WMS.

The neighborhood only just got a neighborhood middle school and now it’s gone.

If they are busing most of East Arlington to DHMS why not just bus to WMS and eliminate the domino of buses to send DHMS walk zone to WMS?? Does the staff own stock in busing companies? Someone’s cousin provides the drivers?

[Anonymous]

The obvious answer is to address overcrowding in the south is to move Immersion to 65% capacity WMS, then any boundary adjustments will be just at the edges rather than core attendance zones.

[Anonymous]

Here we go again. Volunteering others for longer bus rides so that you could walk.

[Anonymous]

Oh look. We should have done a Rosslyn MS after all.

[Anonymous]

Is this the proposal in the pre-CIP report to send just under half half of the Taylor planning units to WMS, or did something else come out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh look. We should have done a Rosslyn MS after all.

Lol there does seem to be a gold you so element to it. The projections for Hamm stay under 100% as is, they could push up the boundaries on the west side of the county and leave it alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The obvious answer is to address overcrowding in the south is to move Immersion to 65% capacity WMS, then any boundary adjustments will be just at the edges rather than core attendance zones.

Yes it is completely obvious to move a County-wide program from the southern-most part of the County to the northern-most part of the county. Those families won't mind at all and that will ensure a healthy immersion program going forward.

That is sarcasm.

Walking to a school is not your birthright. It's really not that big of a deal and I am someone whose child gets bused to an elementary and could walk to another one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So with proposed boundaries, they are nuking almost the entire DHMS walk zone and shipping them to WMS.

The neighborhood only just got a neighborhood middle school and now it’s gone.

If they are busing most of East Arlington to DHMS why not just bus to WMS and eliminate the domino of buses to send DHMS walk zone to WMS?? Does the staff own stock in busing companies? Someone’s cousin provides the drivers?

You're being snarky but hopefully you are aware the same buses cycle through the middle school kids, the high school kids, and then the elementary kids so it is in fact a problem to create bus routes that pull the buses really far from where they need to be for the timing of the next routes.

But we get it. You should stay where you are and everyone else should be inconvenienced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Volunteering others for longer bus rides so that you could walk.

I'm not sure I get this comment. It's not much of a longer ride to be buses to Williamsburg over Hamm. Where were those kids bused before Hamm opened?

I'm not affected, but do think it's a pretty odd choice by APS not to take advantage of the walk zones for Hamm. For the kids in the Rosslyn corridor, I'm not sure the difference between Hamm and Williamsburg is that significant. They're already getting on a bus and Williamsburg isn't that much farther. It also would be great for diversity for Williamsburg to pull from more diverse zones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Volunteering others for longer bus rides so that you could walk.

I'm not sure I get this comment. It's not much of a longer ride to be buses to Williamsburg over Hamm. Where were those kids bused before Hamm opened?

I'm not affected, but do think it's a pretty odd choice by APS not to take advantage of the walk zones for Hamm. For the kids in the Rosslyn corridor, I'm not sure the difference between Hamm and Williamsburg is that significant. They're already getting on a bus and Williamsburg isn't that much farther. It also would be great for diversity for Williamsburg to pull from more diverse zones.

You must be new to APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Volunteering others for longer bus rides so that you could walk.

I'm not sure I get this comment. It's not much of a longer ride to be buses to Williamsburg over Hamm. Where were those kids bused before Hamm opened?

I'm not affected, but do think it's a pretty odd choice by APS not to take advantage of the walk zones for Hamm. For the kids in the Rosslyn corridor, I'm not sure the difference between Hamm and Williamsburg is that significant. They're already getting on a bus and Williamsburg isn't that much farther. It also would be great for diversity for Williamsburg to pull from more diverse zones.

You must be new to APS.

I'm not.

[Anonymous]

I really credit APS planning. It was a great call to build Cardinal and Hamm. North Arlington seats. And now APS says: we have totally lopsided seats. And APS defenders say: that’s the fault of the parents up there who DEMANDED it and we couldn’t possibly say no.

I have zero confidence in their projections/numbers/planning. They have proven themselves totally incompetent.

[Anonymous]

Making Cardinal a neighborhood school was absolutely the fault of the School Board members who caved to Westover for votes. Not APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really credit APS planning. It was a great call to build Cardinal and Hamm. North Arlington seats. And now APS says: we have totally lopsided seats. And APS defenders say: that’s the fault of the parents up there who DEMANDED it and we couldn’t possibly say no.

I have zero confidence in their projections/numbers/planning. They have proven themselves totally incompetent.

Agree. APS planning needs to clean house. They keep making the exact same mistakes again and again and spinning it to blame anything other than their own incompetence. Enough already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Volunteering others for longer bus rides so that you could walk.

I'm not sure I get this comment. It's not much of a longer ride to be buses to Williamsburg over Hamm. Where were those kids bused before Hamm opened?

I'm not affected, but do think it's a pretty odd choice by APS not to take advantage of the walk zones for Hamm. For the kids in the Rosslyn corridor, I'm not sure the difference between Hamm and Williamsburg is that significant. They're already getting on a bus and Williamsburg isn't that much farther. It also would be great for diversity for Williamsburg to pull from more diverse zones.

I agree with this, even though it would probably mean putting my kids on a bus. APS has to start being more efficient. Rosslyn isn’t in a walk zone for anything and this is a small county. I wouldn’t bus kids in a walk zone to Hamm when there are relatively nearby kids that aren’t in a walk zone to anything.