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“This right thing would be to do whatever minimizes operating expenses.  Instead they bus walkers from schools to other schools (happened with both new boundaries for innovation and cardinal).  The planning department has no idea what it is doing.[/quote]’

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600+ bus riders turned into walkers, Reed/Cardinal is closer to more McKinley students in new location. Innovation and Arlington Science Focus are in boundaries, lots of students no longer bused to SF and Taylor.

Still a lot of bus problems across schools, it would have been ALOT worse without moves.[/quote]

+100

ASFS is down to 6 buses from the ~14 they used to have.  Way more of the school are walkers instead of bus riders now.

That’s right. The original commenter here is just one of the Westover types that wanted Cardinal to be for Overlee. They kept them at Tuckahoe and they are bitter.  The moves reduced bus riders countywide tremendously. 
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It's great that the school moves reduced bus riders countywide.  That doesn't make it a good use of resources to bus kids who live three blocks from Cardinal (starting at the north side of 22nd street) to Tuckahoe to make room for bus riders from Madison Manor who could have taken their bus to Tuckahoe.  It sounds like you have some emotions around this decision.  That's fine and normal, but I wish APS would not make decisions on that basis.[/quote]
APS proposed to bus those kids to Glebe, putting it at 126% capacity with kids using hallways as classrooms and inadequate commons spaces, while Nottingham is only at 70% capacity (and Taylor is also under capacity).  This first priority has to be keeping schools from being overcapacity as crowding makes it difficult to educate students.  APS needs to equitably use its capacity.[/quote]

People are acting like Drew is the only school below capacity this year. The Abingdon/Drew moves do need to happen but there is balancing that wasn't addressed in NA too.[/quote]

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