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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This “myth” must be a mass delusion, because the 2 elementary schools and middle schools my kids have attended are all thronged with walkers, and I am not the only one who sees that.[/quote]

Some schools have that and others really do not, and it's dependent on a number of factors. They should just talk to all the principals, because they know. Is their school one where a lot of kids really do walk (obviously there are some). Or not. And then they should ask the principals why or why not, because they probably know this, too.

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Some of the survey information for how kids actually get to school is already available: https://www.apsva.us/elementary-school-boundary-change/walk-zone-resources/

Each school has a 2016 APS Go! Survey Summary providing a snapshot of how kids were getting to and from each school. [/quote]

If we're just looking at Nottingham and Tuckahoe for which schools is more walkable, the difference in the survey results is striking. [/quote]

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