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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids from Eaton can’t walk to current Hardy MS except on nice days.  It’s 1.5-2.5 hilly miles.  They certainly cannot walk to old GDS.[/quote]

Nonsense - it is 1.6 miles from Eaton to Hardy and while the eastern parts of the Eaton catchment probably get up to 2-2.5 miles away that is still walkable in under 30 minutes and there are significant parts of the boundaries that even closer to Hardy than that including the slice north of the Cathedral that isn't even half a mile away.

And LOL kids in Cleveland Park can't walk up hills?  Wilson and Janney are essentially at the highest point in the city and require climbing a hill from all 4 directions and lots of kids walk to both every day.[/quote]

Walking away from privilege is the hardest walk. [/quote]

Nonsense?  2 miles is 30 minutes at a fast pace.  There is a lot of trafficky roads to be crossed.  And plenty of 10-11 year olds still have short legs.  It’s absurd to say it’s under 30 minutes.

But that is the existing set-up.

The real issue is the inaccessibility of old GDS.  What middle school in DC is 4 miles and a 25-30 minute drive — and inaccessible by public transportation for *in-boundary* students?[/quote]

A 15 minute mile is not a fast pace - we are .8 miles from my kids ES and can do it comfortably in 12 minutes and in 10 if we are late and need to hustle.

And kids would need to cross Wisconsin Avenue which has signals at almost every intersection and even Reno has signals at almost every other intersection - you do know there are almost no non trafficky roads inside the Beltway?

So no it is not absurd but what does it matter - most parents coddle their kids in Ward 3 and drive them to school whether it is 3 blocks or 2 miles which again is another mark against this absurd idea of putting a MS in a location that is already terribly congested and to which everyone will be driving greater distances.[/quote]

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