APS middle school boundary process
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Anonymous
Agree. We live 1.8 miles from W-L. Fairly flat, easy ride miles. We live 2.0 miles to Wakefield. These 2 miles include basically a mountain, nearly impossible to bike. But we are inbound (and bus riders) for Wakefield. I understand that change is hard and there will be some people who are unhappy. But we have to look at the whole picture. We are a COMMUNITY. |
Anonymous
Or walking. That's a 30-minute walk. The bus picks kids up 50 minutes before school starts. |
Anonymous
You are essentially equidistant to those two schools. Of course you shouldn't care which one you go to. |
Anonymous
What time does MS start? I see driving drop off in our future. |
Anonymous
there are crossing guards. and traffic lights. the needs to dodge is minimal. |
Anonymous
| This attempt to control for diversity seems so ill conceived. APS can do what it wants and redistrict all it wants. No way will their silly attempts fundamentally change anything, though. People in N. Arlington will either sell and move to Fairfax County, or send their kids to private before sending them to a horrible school. Lol, can you imagine any parents in the current Williamsburg zone allowing their kids to go to Kenmore? Ridiculous. |
Anonymous
+2 |
Anonymous
I do not have to imagine it. I know 3 families in my circle of friends who are zoned for Williamsburg but decided to send their kids to Kenmore. |
Anonymous
Oops, forgot one. Make that 4 families. |
Anonymous
Sure. |
Anonymous
To be perfectly clear- she would be going under Route 50- Carlin Springs goes under Route 50 and has wide sidewalks along this underpass-- not crossing it. Similar to how she is currently crossing 66. Not the same at all. Right now our DH kids walk a block over Patrick Henry in our own neighborhood. From my house it's about a 5-6min walk. Instead option H would do one of three things. Get her up a lot earlier to catch a bus. Get her up a lot earlier to walk on a dark trail that I won't even run on alone in the dark. By the way, do a crime report run on the number of sexual assaults and robberies along the W&OD and Four Mile Run trails in the last few years and tell me you'd be comfortable with your prepubescent child walking there alone. Or, I drive her, thus contributing to all the traffic that the Carlin Springs neighborhood objected to with the idea of a high school there. 1.5mi walk zones are a joke. For many of us, our walk zone is under half a mile, and yes, the kids walk. Want real diversity, start swapping kids between South Arlington and Williamsburg. Until then, if you have a school remaining under 10% FARMS in what you claim is a relatively small county, then this is lip service to diversity while sacrificing every other factor that APS claims it takes into consideration. |
Anonymous
| +1 to the PP. Let's see Arlington carve out a section of country club hills to swap with Kenmore. Once they're willing to do that,we can talk about busing other kids far away. |
Anonymous
The only way you'd believe me is if I posted their names and addresses and I am not going to do that. Those 4 families felt Kenmore was a better fit for their children then Williamsburg and in each instance their child attended for all three years of MS. |
Anonymous
Cool. I'm sure the other people in Williamsburg with their big new builds would be just like the 4 outliers you know. Totally. It's gonna work for sure. |
Anonymous
Williamsburg sent 28 kids to Kenmore Swanson sent 36. It's on the transfer report. No need to go on personal anecdotes. |