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

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Anonymous wrote:Any idiot can look at a map and see that. The boundary changes don't affect me. But moving AF turns walkers into long haul bus riders.

"Long haul bus riders"? You do like some hyperbole with your whine, don't you?

[Anonymous]

Further, in the data APS recently provided, AF was not chosen for redistricting by most submitters. It's clear the school board is doing whatever they want and this whole boundary tool and input from the community is a giant farce.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any idiot can look at a map and see that. The boundary changes don't affect me. But moving AF turns walkers into long haul bus riders.

"Long haul bus riders"? You do like some hyperbole with your whine, don't you?

I don't see how it's an exaggeration. Easy walk through neighborhoods and Ballston to W-L versus a bus headed across major roads and down Carlin Springs in heavy morning traffic. It will be quite the distant and time consuming journey. No way that kids could do it on foot.

And APS says they value proximaty?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlington Forest is not close to Wakefield. Not by a longshot. Arlington Forest kids can and do walk to W-L

Kids in Arlington Forest are closer to Wakefield than many other kids in the county are to their proposed high schools.

[Anonymous]

Enough already. Just make a damn choice. Racists will always howl.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington Forest is not close to Wakefield. Not by a longshot. Arlington Forest kids can and do walk to W-L

Kids in Arlington Forest are closer to Wakefield than many other kids in the county are to their assigned high schools.

fixed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Further, in the data APS recently provided, AF was not chosen for redistricting by most submitters. It's clear the school board is doing whatever they want and this whole boundary tool and input from the community is a giant farce.

APS also said that they suspect some people were submitting the same suggestions over and over and over.

I actually do think the the school board should make a decision here and be done with it. The notion that we will come to some sort of community consensus on this is absurd. Someone is going to be unhappy no matter what is decided. The decision should not be made by those who have the loudest voices.

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Anonymous wrote:Any idiot can look at a map and see that. The boundary changes don't affect me. But moving AF turns walkers into long haul bus riders.

"Long haul bus riders"? You do like some hyperbole with your whine, don't you?

I don't see how it's an exaggeration. Easy walk through neighborhoods and Ballston to W-L versus a bus headed across major roads and down Carlin Springs in heavy morning traffic. It will be quite the distant and time consuming journey. No way that kids could do it on foot.

And APS says they value proximaty?

Yeah, because there's no heavy traffic in Ballston.

What are you people smoking, seriously?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any idiot can look at a map and see that. The boundary changes don't affect me. But moving AF turns walkers into long haul bus riders.

"Long haul bus riders"? You do like some hyperbole with your whine, don't you?

I don't see how it's an exaggeration. Easy walk through neighborhoods and Ballston to W-L versus a bus headed across major roads and down Carlin Springs in heavy morning traffic. It will be quite the distant and time consuming journey. No way that kids could do it on foot.

And APS says they value proximaty?

APS says they value proximity among other priorities. That means that proximity must be balanced with the other priorities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any idiot can look at a map and see that. The boundary changes don't affect me. But moving AF turns walkers into long haul bus riders.

"Long haul bus riders"? You do like some hyperbole with your whine, don't you?

I don't see how it's an exaggeration. Easy walk through neighborhoods and Ballston to W-L versus a bus headed across major roads and down Carlin Springs in heavy morning traffic. It will be quite the distant and time consuming journey. No way that kids could do it on foot.

And APS says they value proximaty?

Yeah, because there's no heavy traffic in Ballston.

What are you people smoking, seriously?

You're the one smoking something if you interpret "walk through Ballston" to have anything to do with traffic.

[Anonymous]

A bus ride from Arlington Forest is quicker than a walk to W-L. Kids might not be able to leave at the last minute, so maybe they'll have to leave the house sooner, but we're talking minutes here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A bus ride from Arlington Forest is quicker than a walk to W-L. Kids might not be able to leave at the last minute, so maybe they'll have to leave the house sooner, but we're talking minutes here.

Just think of it as an opportunity for your kids to learn better time management.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any idiot can look at a map and see that. The boundary changes don't affect me. But moving AF turns walkers into long haul bus riders.

"Long haul bus riders"? You do like some hyperbole with your whine, don't you?

I don't see how it's an exaggeration. Easy walk through neighborhoods and Ballston to W-L versus a bus headed across major roads and down Carlin Springs in heavy morning traffic. It will be quite the distant and time consuming journey. No way that kids could do it on foot.

And APS says they value proximaty?

take G Mason Dr.

or the bike path.

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Don't assume PP is a troll. It is an interesting point. For everyone on here calling for the importance of diversity and the benefit to the disadvantaged kids at Wakefield, have you already submitting the transfer request to have your child attend Wakefield even though you are zoned for Yorktown or W-L? There is capacity, so your transfer request would be approved. It's very easy to be a liberal in far north Arlington and talk about the importance of diversity, but very hypocritical to not then live it when the opportunity exists.

Arlington county as a whole is about 30% economically disadvantaged, and so is W-L.

Wakefield is about 46%.
Yorktown is about 14%.

Can you see where the problem is?

The real problem is that there are six elementary schools over 50% and six elementary schools under 5%.

^^ That is de facto segregation.

Which is illegal by law. APS is above the law, it appears. At least in Loudoun it wasn't allowed...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any idiot can look at a map and see that. The boundary changes don't affect me. But moving AF turns walkers into long haul bus riders.

"Long haul bus riders"? You do like some hyperbole with your whine, don't you?

I don't see how it's an exaggeration. Easy walk through neighborhoods and Ballston to W-L versus a bus headed across major roads and down Carlin Springs in heavy morning traffic. It will be quite the distant and time consuming journey. No way that kids could do it on foot.

And APS says they value proximaty?

take G Mason Dr.

or the bike path.

I think due to congestion around Ballston, the drive from AF to W-L and the drive from AF to Wakefield are pretty close. But there is no disputing the walk from the neighborhood to W-L is shorter and the bike routes are safer.

The walk from AF to Wakefield via George Mason is much longer than on the bike path. But I would not let my kids walk or bike on the bike path - I won't even walk or bike on it myself if I'm alone. It's very isolated and in the 10+ years we've lived here there have been enough crime reports involving that stretch that for our family it's a non starter.