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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its stupid to claim that something is only 4 or 5 miles. You can live out in western Potomac and only be a few miles from Dulles but guess what -it takes 90 to 120 minutes to get there because there is a river between you and Dulles. 4-5 unnecessary miles in traffic can create substantial time problems. I guess the high school students can just leave earlier since they don't need sleep. The busses are not always reliable too. We had several instances when the MS bus just didn't show up or was so late that no one knew whether to wait or not. Parents would fill their cars with kids and drive them in. At least it was close and on the way to where most people would be commuting. Bus the kids 20 minutes away in a different direction and now the parents have 40 minutes to drop off and back track.

Plus the people who love to happily re-assign others always pick the 4-5 miles from the existing high school location not the neighborhood that feed it. You would then be bussing kids 10 miles away. They happy re-assigners would never tolerate this for their own kids but they have no problem rationalizing it for others.

[b]It is asinine to bus people pass closer schools.[/b] [/quote]

The fact that this is already happening is WHY we are having a boundary study. But let's not pretend everyone is zoned to the closest school right now. There are Northood and Einstein-zoned kids who are closer to BCC than their zoned high schools. I'm not saying those kids will be rezoned, but the status quo is not some platonic ideal of logistics and transportation. [/quote]

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