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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ I think it's very important in elementary school to go to school with your neighbors.  The kids make friends a few doors down or a short walk.  They can run back and forth to each other's houses.  Play dates aren't a major pain in the ass with having to pick a kid up on the other side of town sitting in rush hioir traffic on Lee highway.

Most of our neighborhood goest to the same school, but there is a large portion from all the way across town.  I've had to really cut back on play dates with any of those kids because it's just too much of a pain.  The kids in the neighborhood will get together a lot and in nights they have practices they can still have short play dates beforehand.[/quote]

But now we're talking about MS. Shouldn't kids worlds be expanding at this point?[/quote]

MS --I want the closest school to my house.  More sleep. Shorter time getting to and from.

My kids have friends all over the County because of camps and sports.[/quote]

Agree.  Besides, [b]it does expand in middle school because MS is larger with more neighborhoods feeding in than elementary schools[/b].  The closest neighborhoods to the schools makes the most sense.[/quote]

People who were expressing alignment concerns earlier were saying that only like 20 kids per year from Kenmore are districted to then go to Yorktown.  You say there's an expanded universe of people and friends in MS, which is true, but heck of alot of good that is if there will be less than 2 dozen potential familiar faces/people for continuity going into HS.  The weird Kenmore-Yorktown island the Board made last year is really shitty for these kids, and don't tell me you wouldn't be bellyaching if your kid was sent to a HS where 99% of the kids would be new to him/her and he or she would effectively have to start all over again, even if your kid might, in fact, know people from "all over" because of sports, etc.  Nobody is asking for perfect same es-ms-hs for everyone, people were understandably frustrated by the anomaly created last year for that small group of kids.[/quote]

DP, but I think you'd want to advocate for either H (so there are more Kenmore-Yorktown kids), or B (then you at least have some continuity from ES to MS). I don't like B in it's current iteration, but think it could be improved. I like some aspects of H, but the Tuckahoe parents are dusting off their orange shirts as we speak, so it won't be selected. [/quote]

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