AACPS Redistricting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saying that Route 3 should be the hard boundary between the Arundel and Crofton clusters is as ridiculous as saying that Route 2 should be the hard boundary between the Severna Park and Broadneck clusters. Could you imagine kids living as north as Berrywoood being bused to Broadneck? Or kids living near the Severn River bridge being bused to Broadneck?

OMG the gnashing of teeth that would happen if you tried to move some Severna Park kids!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying that Route 3 should be the hard boundary between the Arundel and Crofton clusters is as ridiculous as saying that Route 2 should be the hard boundary between the Severna Park and Broadneck clusters. Could you imagine kids living as north as Berrywoood being bused to Broadneck? Or kids living near the Severn River bridge being bused to Broadneck?

It IS the boundary except for River Walk. Why should that neighborhood be the exception?

Because kids in Riverwalk have to use Route 3 to get to any high school they attend regardless of whether it’s Arundel or Crofton. Why should they go to a school that’s 14 minutes away (Arundel) vs 8 minutes away (Crofton)? Riverwalk students would have to be on Route 3 for even longer if they go to Arundel vs Crofton. It almost seems pathetic and cruel.

Also, Route 3 wasn’t the boundary between Crofton and Arundel until Crofton High opened. Waugh Chapel communities, Two Rivers, and Forks of Patuxent all used to attend the Crofton feeder.

You can’t get to anywhere from River Walk without getting on route 3. People who live there accept the risks of Route 3 as part of living there. They’re getting on route 3 no matter what, but that isn’t true of the rest of Crofton. It isn’t fair to put Nantucket kids onto Route 3 unnecessarily.

Do you think the Nantucket kids are going to have to hitch hike down Route 3 or something? What exactly isn't fair about having to drive on a bigger road than a smaller one?

Route 3 is incredibly dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking down on "townhome kids" is so crofton. I live in aa co again now but I am soo glad I moved from crofton/aa county for my 20s and most of my 30s. So many people go to college and come right back to Crofton which is why these nasty attitudes persist. And honestly I agree there should not be split articulation from nantucket, it's bonkers! There is the argument, not trying to throw "townhome kids" under the bus and making it their fault somehow. The nantucket folks are right and yet soo unsympathetic.

If River Walk would simply get on board with moving to the Arundel cluster, there would be no need for the split articulation of Nantucket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking down on "townhome kids" is so crofton. I live in aa co again now but I am soo glad I moved from crofton/aa county for my 20s and most of my 30s. So many people go to college and come right back to Crofton which is why these nasty attitudes persist. And honestly I agree there should not be split articulation from nantucket, it's bonkers! There is the argument, not trying to throw "townhome kids" under the bus and making it their fault somehow. The nantucket folks are right and yet soo unsympathetic.

If River Walk would simply get on board with moving to the Arundel cluster, there would be no need for the split articulation of Nantucket.

Maybe they don’t want their kids to have to move either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking down on "townhome kids" is so crofton. I live in aa co again now but I am soo glad I moved from crofton/aa county for my 20s and most of my 30s. So many people go to college and come right back to Crofton which is why these nasty attitudes persist. And honestly I agree there should not be split articulation from nantucket, it's bonkers! There is the argument, not trying to throw "townhome kids" under the bus and making it their fault somehow. The nantucket folks are right and yet soo unsympathetic.

If River Walk would simply get on board with moving to the Arundel cluster, there would be no need for the split articulation of Nantucket.

Maybe they don’t want their kids to have to move either.

I’m sure they don’t. But the reality is that moving them is less harmful than splitting Nantucket. They’d simply join the Arundel cluster and attend those schools from the beginning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying that Route 3 should be the hard boundary between the Arundel and Crofton clusters is as ridiculous as saying that Route 2 should be the hard boundary between the Severna Park and Broadneck clusters. Could you imagine kids living as north as Berrywoood being bused to Broadneck? Or kids living near the Severn River bridge being bused to Broadneck?

OMG the gnashing of teeth that would happen if you tried to move some Severna Park kids!

Hahaha. For what ever reason Severna park seems to be untouchable in all this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking down on "townhome kids" is so crofton. I live in aa co again now but I am soo glad I moved from crofton/aa county for my 20s and most of my 30s. So many people go to college and come right back to Crofton which is why these nasty attitudes persist. And honestly I agree there should not be split articulation from nantucket, it's bonkers! There is the argument, not trying to throw "townhome kids" under the bus and making it their fault somehow. The nantucket folks are right and yet soo unsympathetic.

If River Walk would simply get on board with moving to the Arundel cluster, there would be no need for the split articulation of Nantucket.

Riverwalk is IN CROFTON. I thought the argument was for “One Crofton”??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking down on "townhome kids" is so crofton. I live in aa co again now but I am soo glad I moved from crofton/aa county for my 20s and most of my 30s. So many people go to college and come right back to Crofton which is why these nasty attitudes persist. And honestly I agree there should not be split articulation from nantucket, it's bonkers! There is the argument, not trying to throw "townhome kids" under the bus and making it their fault somehow. The nantucket folks are right and yet soo unsympathetic.

If River Walk would simply get on board with moving to the Arundel cluster, there would be no need for the split articulation of Nantucket.

Riverwalk is IN CROFTON. I thought the argument was for “One Crofton”??

You're being intentionally obtuse. Ideally all students currently attending Crofton feeder schools would continue to attend Crofton High School. Unfortunately, the Board was unwilling to let that happen. If the Board insists on moving anyone, it should be those kids who live on the Arundel side of Route 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking down on "townhome kids" is so crofton. I live in aa co again now but I am soo glad I moved from crofton/aa county for my 20s and most of my 30s. So many people go to college and come right back to Crofton which is why these nasty attitudes persist. And honestly I agree there should not be split articulation from nantucket, it's bonkers! There is the argument, not trying to throw "townhome kids" under the bus and making it their fault somehow. The nantucket folks are right and yet soo unsympathetic.

If River Walk would simply get on board with moving to the Arundel cluster, there would be no need for the split articulation of Nantucket.

Riverwalk is IN CROFTON. I thought the argument was for “One Crofton”??

You're being intentionally obtuse. Ideally all students currently attending Crofton feeder schools would continue to attend Crofton High School. Unfortunately, the Board was unwilling to let that happen. If the Board insists on moving anyone, it should be those kids who live on the Arundel side of Route 3.

They don’t live on the Arundel side of Route 3, they live on the Crofton side of Route 3. That land has been part of the Crofton cluster for way longer than the Nantucket community has. Nantucket was the community that was attending Four Seasons Elementary and Arundel Middle until 2008 when Nantucket Elementary itself opened and the parents fought to be moved to Crofton Middle. You don’t get to be the arbitrator of who should and shouldn’t go to Arundel or Crofton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking down on "townhome kids" is so crofton. I live in aa co again now but I am soo glad I moved from crofton/aa county for my 20s and most of my 30s. So many people go to college and come right back to Crofton which is why these nasty attitudes persist. And honestly I agree there should not be split articulation from nantucket, it's bonkers! There is the argument, not trying to throw "townhome kids" under the bus and making it their fault somehow. The nantucket folks are right and yet soo unsympathetic.

If River Walk would simply get on board with moving to the Arundel cluster, there would be no need for the split articulation of Nantucket.

Riverwalk is IN CROFTON. I thought the argument was for “One Crofton”??

You're being intentionally obtuse. Ideally all students currently attending Crofton feeder schools would continue to attend Crofton High School. Unfortunately, the Board was unwilling to let that happen. If the Board insists on moving anyone, it should be those kids who live on the Arundel side of Route 3.

They don’t live on the Arundel side of Route 3, they live on the Crofton side of Route 3. That land has been part of the Crofton cluster for way longer than the Nantucket community has. Nantucket was the community that was attending Four Seasons Elementary and Arundel Middle until 2008 when Nantucket Elementary itself opened and the parents fought to be moved to Crofton Middle. You don’t get to be the arbitrator of who should and shouldn’t go to Arundel or Crofton.

No one lived on that land until a developer threw up some townhouses on it a few years ago. All of this will play out once the appeal is successful.