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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite part of these discussions is how anyone who might be rezoned can't come up with a good reason why they shouldn't be rezoned.  But they CAN come up with many reasons why OTHER children should be re-zoned.

No one likes it when it happens to their kid.  There is maybe some unhappiness.  But it is not nearly the crazy amount of upheaval that people claim it will be.  The kids adjust, they make some new friends and life moves on.

And yes, my kids would be impacted by several of the moves discussed.  Do I want their middle school years to involve a school change?  No.   But do I also realize that if that does happen, my kids will be ok.  Just like the vast majority of the people complaining on this board.[/quote]

This is so accurate.  If you watch this scene long enough, people end up contradicting themselves years later.   Now it’s a different criteria that should be prioritized!  The sole goal is getting the target on someone else’s kids, whatever it takes.[/quote]

You are insane. We were fully supportive of a being moved for DHMS, as it placed a walkable middle school in a neighborhood teeming with children. It was a good use of a large parcel to serve a huge population of students and reduce busing significantly.   And that was even with a very old run down building; with construction on going for years for the addition (which made it nicer than other middle schools, but most are old and crummy so very low bar — its not like we were getting Kenmore style new build), it was a good move for us and the community at large.

This boundary adjustment could disrupt hundreds of students, add dozens of buses to the fleet with new routes and traffic, just so we can keep immersion at at-capacity Gunston. [/quote]

I'm not necessarily advocating keeping the immersion program at Gunston. I thought moving it to Kenmore made a lot of sense. Kenmore is a more centrally located school, and part of Kenmore feeds into Wakefield. I just don't think it makes any sense at all to move it to Williamsburg MS, at the opposite end of the county to avoid redrawing boundaries. [/quote]

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