Reply to APS Middle School Boundaries?

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "APS Middle School Boundaries?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's refresh everyone on what a neighborhood-school is supposed to be about.  We are all supposed to live near each other and its supposed to be a community.  If I am in a PU that gets bused to TJ I don't want to now get bused to freaking Williamsburg and not be with any people near me just so some N Arlington jerks can still walk to school.

I'm sure that's just a rumor but it's freaking outrageous.[/quote]

Yeah it is hard for kids to remain friends with other kids who live close by when they go to different schools. This would be awful. [/quote]
The community is defined by the boundaries drawn by by APS.  Your neighbors would still go to the same school, unless you happen to be right on a boundary.  And boundaries have to be somewhere.  It's not really a change from the status quo.  It's just a question of what methodology and inputs APS uses to decide the boundary map.  [/quote]

In the immediate vicinity, yes. But overall, no. The kids who live closer to a school but are sent farther away will live farther from other kids who go to what was their neighborhood school. And they will be going to school with kids who live far from them too. [/quote]

And this plan minimizes the number of kids who are bused further away. We had to bus people away from neighborhood school because of capacity mismatch, but this minimizes the impact and the cost. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics