APS Boundary tool--anyone get it to work yet?

[Anonymous]

Units in play are at risk. You fight it BEFORE it happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS policy is any high school students 1.5 miles from HS are designated walkers.

What happens when part of the planning unit is beyond that? If your own house is less than 1.5 miles you are a designated walker, correct?

Driving app has 1.4 miles. Walking app has us 0.95 miles. We are in edge of a planning unit. Curious as well.

You have legal cause.

[Anonymous]

^Legal cause??? No one has the legal right to be zoned to a school they live within walking distance of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^Legal cause??? No one has the legal right to be zoned to a school they live within walking distance of.

According to policy they do.

[Anonymous]

After the past 4 years of APS arguing and fighting to eliminate budding--they are now taking high schoolers 1-1.5 miles from a HS and bussing them a ross town.

Idiots. This County is falling apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After the past 4 years of APS arguing and fighting to eliminate budding--they are now taking high schoolers 1-1.5 miles from a HS and bussing them a ross town.

Idiots. This County is falling apart.

'bussing'. Autocorrect

[Anonymous]

Moving walkers to a bus zone?!?!?!!! Wtf??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moving walkers to a bus zone?!?!?!!! Wtf??

This is a hardship. These same kids walk to and from sports practices and other HS activities after school.

They now have additional transportation issues for after school activities.

The county and their "no car zone" fliers constantly.

What a bunch of hypocrites.

Those of us bought specifically for the walkability/lifestyle and walkability to HS.

[Anonymous]

For everyone getting upset about the walker-to-busser issue, I think you might be in luck because above all else, costs will be on your side. John Chadwick mentioned at the meeting that he would hope to preserve the walking units as much as possible, and a large part of the driving force behind this desire is that the county just does not have the money to pay for increasing its bussing fleet.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't inform yourselves and suggest alternatives that work better for you, but maybe recognize that you are going into this fight armed with a bit of an advantage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone has their heads in their asses.

It has zero to do with friends.

It's proximity and walking.

A few assholes in our neighborhood want an all-white student body because their kids are social misfits and can't stand up for themselves.

Is the same person posting over and over here? Because until a few posts ago, this conversation consisted of reasonable people disagreeing reasonably. Now all of a sudden we have a dozen posts using foul language and calling people names. Stop sock-puppeting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone has their heads in their asses.

It has zero to do with friends.

It's proximity and walking.

A few assholes in our neighborhood want an all-white student body because their kids are social misfits and can't stand up for themselves.

I don't believe it has zero to do with friends, since there are numerous posts above stating that they are concerned not just about boundary-redrawing but about middle schools being split between multiple high schools because they don't want kids being separated from friends. You might not be concerned about this, but it appears that at least a few others are.

Regarding proximity and walking: ANY boundary drawn ANYWHERE is going to necessarily involve some students being further away from their assigned school than they are from some other school, and will involve separating some neighbors from others. I live on at the very edge of a planning unit assigned to one elementary school (School A). The people who live behind us (whose backyards meet up with the backyards on my street) all go to another school (School B). The people who live across the street to one side of our house (we live on a corner) all go to yet another school (School C). We live less than half a mile from School C and could easily walk there. Instead we are assigned to School A, which is more than a mile away--a long way for, say, a kindergartener on a rainy day. The people who live behind us also live less than half a mile from School C, but more than a mile from their assigned School B. Would I prefer to be assigned to School C? Sure. Would it be nice if my kids when to school with the kids who live behind us and across the street? Absolutely. But the boundary had to be drawn somewhere.

There will be winners and losers with any redrawing of boundaries. You might end up further from your assigned school, but someone else will end up closer to theirs. That's life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After the past 4 years of APS arguing and fighting to eliminate budding--they are now taking high schoolers 1-1.5 miles from a HS and bussing them a ross town.

Idiots. This County is falling apart.

Actually, it sounds like YOU are falling apart. Get a grip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone has their heads in their asses.

It has zero to do with friends.

It's proximity and walking.

A few assholes in our neighborhood want an all-white student body because their kids are social misfits and can't stand up for themselves.

I don't believe it has zero to do with friends, since there are numerous posts above stating that they are concerned not just about boundary-redrawing but about middle schools being split between multiple high schools because they don't want kids being separated from friends. You might not be concerned about this, but it appears that at least a few others are.

Regarding proximity and walking: ANY boundary drawn ANYWHERE is going to necessarily involve some students being further away from their assigned school than they are from some other school, and will involve separating some neighbors from others. I live on at the very edge of a planning unit assigned to one elementary school (School A). The people who live behind us (whose backyards meet up with the backyards on my street) all go to another school (School B). The people who live across the street to one side of our house (we live on a corner) all go to yet another school (School C). We live less than half a mile from School C and could easily walk there. Instead we are assigned to School A, which is more than a mile away--a long way for, say, a kindergartener on a rainy day. The people who live behind us also live less than half a mile from School C, but more than a mile from their assigned School B. Would I prefer to be assigned to School C? Sure. Would it be nice if my kids when to school with the kids who live behind us and across the street? Absolutely. But the boundary had to be drawn somewhere.

There will be winners and losers with any redrawing of boundaries. You might end up further from your assigned school, but someone else will end up closer to theirs. That's life.

Thank you, and walk zones certainly aren't a compelling enough reason to push Wakefield up to 50% poverty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone has their heads in their asses.

It has zero to do with friends.

It's proximity and walking.

A few assholes in our neighborhood want an all-white student body because their kids are social misfits and can't stand up for themselves.

I don't believe it has zero to do with friends, since there are numerous posts above stating that they are concerned not just about boundary-redrawing but about middle schools being split between multiple high schools because they don't want kids being separated from friends. You might not be concerned about this, but it appears that at least a few others are.

Regarding proximity and walking: ANY boundary drawn ANYWHERE is going to necessarily involve some students being further away from their assigned school than they are from some other school, and will involve separating some neighbors from others. I live on at the very edge of a planning unit assigned to one elementary school (School A). The people who live behind us (whose backyards meet up with the backyards on my street) all go to another school (School B). The people who live across the street to one side of our house (we live on a corner) all go to yet another school (School C). We live less than half a mile from School C and could easily walk there. Instead we are assigned to School A, which is more than a mile away--a long way for, say, a kindergartener on a rainy day. The people who live behind us also live less than half a mile from School C, but more than a mile from their assigned School B. Would I prefer to be assigned to School C? Sure. Would it be nice if my kids when to school with the kids who live behind us and across the street? Absolutely. But the boundary had to be drawn somewhere.

There will be winners and losers with any redrawing of boundaries. You might end up further from your assigned school, but someone else will end up closer to theirs. That's life.

Thank you, and walk zones certainly aren't a compelling enough reason to push Wakefield up to 50% poverty.

AMEN

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone has their heads in their asses.

It has zero to do with friends.

It's proximity and walking.

A few assholes in our neighborhood want an all-white student body because their kids are social misfits and can't stand up for themselves.

I don't believe it has zero to do with friends, since there are numerous posts above stating that they are concerned not just about boundary-redrawing but about middle schools being split between multiple high schools because they don't want kids being separated from friends. You might not be concerned about this, but it appears that at least a few others are.

Regarding proximity and walking: ANY boundary drawn ANYWHERE is going to necessarily involve some students being further away from their assigned school than they are from some other school, and will involve separating some neighbors from others. I live on at the very edge of a planning unit assigned to one elementary school (School A). The people who live behind us (whose backyards meet up with the backyards on my street) all go to another school (School B). The people who live across the street to one side of our house (we live on a corner) all go to yet another school (School C). We live less than half a mile from School C and could easily walk there. Instead we are assigned to School A, which is more than a mile away--a long way for, say, a kindergartener on a rainy day. The people who live behind us also live less than half a mile from School C, but more than a mile from their assigned School B. Would I prefer to be assigned to School C? Sure. Would it be nice if my kids when to school with the kids who live behind us and across the street? Absolutely. But the boundary had to be drawn somewhere.

There will be winners and losers with any redrawing of boundaries. You might end up further from your assigned school, but someone else will end up closer to theirs. That's life.

Thank you, and walk zones certainly aren't a compelling enough reason to push Wakefield up to 50% poverty.

AMEN

Well we are making Yorktown even whiter and richer with the new planning units.

Idiots.

We are headed to W-L for swim and track right now. Why? It's a mile from our house.

I'm not going to get in a car and drive to the alternatives

#dumbfucks in charge of APS