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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know.  I have had two Nott. parents tonight tell me that they don't want to be a choice school b/s it will create 22 buses and their properties will decrease b/c they will, "be bussing in other kids."  WTH does that mean? I had to find a way to excuse myself from their convo.  [/quote]

The property decrease thing is BS, but if you can't understand why folks in an school zone with very high walkability (and therefore only 2 buses) would be upset at the prospect of up to 22 buses crowding the roads when there are only 2 now, and putting the kids who are existing walkers onto buses to go to other schools, well...use your imagination.

Like I said, the property thing [u]is[/u] BS.  As a Nottingham parent, I cringe when I hear it.  MOST OF US DO.  (but every single school has parents who are nuts for one reason or another, so yes, just walk away, or don't – stay and talk so you can report back here)  My property value is going to do nothing but increase because it is the same house in the same great neighborhood.  BUT the much-touted overlapping walk zones don't cover 380ish current walkers to Nottingham. That's 380 kids who will need to be bussed to one of the other schools.  That's irritating, period.  But especially so when this whole thing APPEARED to start out as an exercise to increase walkability.  We all know now that round 1 was just a big waste of time and money, but that's APS for you.

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