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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.[/quote]

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.  
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.  [/quote]

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out![/quote]
Great idea! Everyone who is being moved, look up directions in Google maps and select the public transit tab. Post your estimated travel time and number of transfers required! I bet they’ll all be super reasonable. [/quote]

Oops! I thought you were worried about the low income kids who couldn’t carpool to school.  Most Fairfax low income neighborhoods are located near public transit. Laughably, [b]you are concerned about you own kids and trying to stop grandfathering for all kids until you get what you want.[/b]

Got it.[/quote]

This is sadly what I see in my neighborhood group.  Folks opposing grandfathering seem worried that if it goes through, others will stop fighting the boundary change in general. I find the all or nothing attitude very sad.  This needs to be treated as a separate issue --- a policy change that impacts all boundary changes current and future, some of which may end up being truly necessary. It doesn't have to mean that we stop pushing back against current unnecessary boundary changes.  It is just another layer of protection against moving kids at particularly harmful time --- the middle of high school. [/quote]

That's a very odd way to articulate it.  I think the people who are against the boundary changes are still against the boundary changes.  Then you have a group that's quickly decided to start taking up the School Board's cause, either because (1) their own kids would benefit from grandfathering, with or without transportation; or (2) they stand to benefit from the KAA acquisition, so a School Board that just dropped $150 million on a school for them can do little wrong in their eyes.

I mean, kudos to the School Board for rolling out this type of "divide and conquer" strategy, but the potential boundary changes themselves are still imbecilic in many if not most instances, and they deserve to remain the primary focus of attention, not the bone tossed to soften the blow. [/quote]

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