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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So assuming the vote is yes, they make the decisions on the boundaries in the fall?[/quote]

Why can't Madison Manor & Dominion Hills be bused to Reed?

If you look at the actual Reed walkzone, many of the PUs near Lee Highway could continue to to go Tuckahoe and Nottingham leaving room for almost all of Save McKinley to ride a bus to Reed?[/quote]

It’s not about staying with their friends (b/c without a move, McKinely is torn asunder anyways) it’s about walking to the school right next door to the house they bought and that ease of lifestyle. [/quote]

This.

Also, there isn't room for all of them.  When Reed takes the Tuckahoe units it their backyard and nearby (closer than either MM or DH), there isn't room for the other two neighborhoods.[/quote]

That's not true. Only two Tuckahoe planning units are in Reed's walk shed, and there are less than 100 kids between the two of them, even if you count the three additional Tuckahoe PUs that possibly could be included in an expanded walk zone, that's only another 90 or so kids. Reed's capacity will be well over 700. The majority of kids in Reed's walk shed are currently zoned to McKinley or Glebe. Reed is technically within Tuckahoe's current boundary, but along its easternmost edge, and Reed is surrounded by McKinley planning units to the north, east, and south.

What you're right about is how hard it is to keep all of MM / DH together in the move to Reed. One of their planning units is especially large, and also very close to Ashlawn. If you fill Reed with the PUs in its walk shed plus the three big MM / DH units, that almost fills the school, and probably means keeping a nearby Glebe PU at Glebe and busing several McKinley PUs down Washington Blvd to Ashlawn (though they'd be bused regardless).[/quote]

Actually the the units to the north of Reed are also Tuckahoe. The other Tuckahoe units you mention in the expanded walkshed are much more part of the neighborhood around Reed than MM/DH. This is low stakes stuff, but they should just rip off the bandaid and assign units where it makes sense rather than trying to preserve ephemeral communities of elementary students. [/quote]

This the right path forward.  Ashlawn would pull from South of 50 - aligning mostly to the Kenmore boundary south of Wilson (except for those walkable DH) - helping provide relief for western Columbia Pike.  We need every bit of relief and if Ashlawn can pull a few hundred students from South of 50 that will have a domino effect.  [b]It makes sense for Madison Manor and the Dominion Hills bus riders to go to Reed.[/b][/quote]

No, they should backfill Tuckahoe for the units they will lose which are adjacent to Reed. [/quote]

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