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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have just decided I am going to make it my mission to turn Tuckahoe into an option school.[/quote]

They are disgusting. Such selfish behavior. Beyond that, their survey is beyond alarmist and is spreading lies. APS never said the school with the fewest walkers will automatically become option. Some preschool parents may be really sorry when in a few years, they have a very dangerous walk to school because today’s Tuckahoe PTA decided to go all out to pull as many walkers into their zone at the cost of other schools.[/quote]

Give it a rest already. They're not doing anything that all the rest of you haven't done, too. Such hysteria.

I hope after all this tumult just to make every school "walkable" staff does a study and finds out how many "walkers" are really driven to school everyday and we can dispense with this myth once and for all. Buses are better for traffic and the environment than individual drivers dropping their kids off everyday. If they want to lessen both busing and individual driving, they should move all the ES start times up so that parents don't need before care, and cut yellow buses at the MS and HS levels to force kids onto our network of public transportation. [/quote]

+1 on that buses and before care point. I'm a Tuckahoe parent, and the tone of the conversation on PTA and other emails has been pretty bananas to me. I do not understand these walk zone emails for Tuckahoe because a) NOVA drivers are nuts and do not seem to give a fig about pedestrians and b) I would very much like to not have to pay an extra almost $200 a month for before care to keep a "neighborhood" school. We already know we have K kids leaving for Reed around 4th grade. It's happening, so why not mix everyone up then. Changing schools in 3rd grade did not harm anyone I knew in FCPS AAP system. The house value argument on these surveys is particularly stunning as well. The problem is hysteria has now taken hold and the provincial MUST HAVE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL sentiment is scrapping for justification rather than founded on reason. Lee Hwy and Sycamore are not reasonably crossable. Admittedly I keep my mouth well shut IRL because everyone just assumes we all have the same opinions about this topic.
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