Greenbriar East

[Anonymous]

Any comments, complaints, advice?
I have two kids, and we are planning to move to the GreenBriar East Area. Diff is 3 years, so if DD (and hopefully she will) gets into GT, she will need to go to Greenbriar West. How does the transport work? So when ODD is in 3rd grade going to GBW, younger one will just get into Kindergarten and will still need to go to GBE? How did the rest of you manage this?
Or should I just try to look for a place that has an in house GT center like for example, GBW area.

[Anonymous]

They just redid the boundaries again for GBW and GBE. If you are looking within the Greenbriar neighborhood, look up the house and confirm that they are zoned for West....if that's where you want to go. In some parts of the neighborhood only a few houses separate West from East.
IF a child is in AAP and there's a bus that can go through the neighborhood, your child would be assigned to that bus. In some areas, you would have to drive your kid. GBW and GBE are pretty close, so you may choose to drive them both.
Right now, GBW is overcrowded and so aren't accepting transfers of younger siblings of AAP students. That may change in a few years if the boundary plan put in place this year pans out.

[Anonymous]

POD. Boundaries change, bus situations change, transfer rules change. If you don't want to worry about what may happen in a few years....stick with looking at houses that are well inside the boundaries for the school you want. My DH thought I was nuts for focusing on us being zoned for an AAP center. We didn't even have kids yet. He's not laughing now, as it turned out one of our kids IS at the center, and the others can go to the same school without us jumping through hoops.