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I'm with you, CF poster. Drew poster here. Your point is that Drew is far enough away that you can get 7 other schools within a circle around your neighborhood, whether those schools are choice or not. Either proximity to schools matters or it doesn't. Either busing kids past one elem. to attend another is silly or it isn't. It can't be that way for one boundary process but not the next one. All we're asking for is a consistent approach that isn't an obvious giveaway for one school community over others. [/quote]

I think its a little more complicated than that.  The schools are not perfectly located in the middle of obvious zones.  You can believe that proximity matters, and believe that 'busing past one school' is silly, but still end up doing it.  In the current context- Abingdon is the closest school for a lot of kids- more than fit at Abingdon.  For CF, the next closest schools is probably Randolph- but Radolph fills with its walkzone.   So do you let CF bump out part of Fairlington and got to Abingdon?  Or do you bus CF to Drew?  I personally vote for the non walkable Fairlington to Drew, and I think it is the solution that best fits all of the boundary considerations, but I think reasonable people can disagree.[/quote]

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