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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a McKinley parent, but I don't have a problem with Reed not sitting inside its attendance zone. The school wasn't built in the right place - it was just built where they could get land. Why should Tuckahoe families go to an undercrowded school for years and then get to go to a brand new school? Why should they be better off than the rest of the county? [/quote]

Since you aren't a McKinley parent, you actually don't seem to have the right information. The Reed location can be filled quite well with walking planning units.  More students at McK live within walking distance of Reed than McK.  The transportation costs of the school being in Westover instead of Madison Manor is significant.  The problem is that folk who live near Wilson don't want to go to Ashlawn, so they are acting like babies.[/quote]

You're missing my point. My issue isn't the McKinley parents who want to walk to Reed. My issue is the people who think a ton of Tuckahoe kids should go to Reed just because of its closer location. Tuckahoe should have been made an option school years ago. Those parents complained and prevented that logical decision from being made. Yet those same families are attacking McKinley parents for complaining now. 
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The people that can walk to Reed from Tuckahoe are NOT the ones that fought Tuckahoe being an option school.  At this point, I don't think I want to deal with these whiny McK parents at my school.  Leave me at Tuckahoe, but don't go and move me again in two years.  Nothing will have changed at that point.  Either do it now, or not at all.  The current proposed boundaries don't make sense if you want to save money on bussing.  Two PUs will have to be bussed to Tuckahoe (16060 and 16050) that could walk to Reed and 14010 and 14020 will need to be bussed regardless, so why not bus them to Tuckahoe instead of Reed.  Superintendent sounds like he is leaning towards Option A, so all of McK won't be going to Reed anyway, so why not make that tweak and save some money. [/quote]

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