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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]

The point of the expanding walk zones is that APS (and written to the County Managers budget comments) is the strong desire to greatly reduce APS busing. I think they've had a driver shortage and don't space for more buses. So we all know more kids are coming in the next decade so they need to service more kids with the number of buses we have now, hence they whole lets rush to expand walk zones. I don't disagree that a bus rider is better than a parent driving a kid, but APS is saying for them financially and logistically anything is better for them than a bus rider when avoidable. [/quote]

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