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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're not going to do any of this. You cray. Certainly not any sort of tracking or "school within a school." Just move already. That's what they're going to tell you. [/quote]

Not cray. This is exactly what they did on the north side 25 years ago. It’s been done before.[/quote]

Go watch the SB meeting where the department of instruction basically said this (meaning tracking) was a huge mistake of the previous generation that won't be repeated. FFS, unless the Super and all his staff and at least 3/5 SB members leave in the next 6 months you're on a fool's errand. Randolph has IB, but it's for every student at the school not just some in a special program. They're not going to force out the neighborhood kids who can walk from the "Barcroft" Apartments onto buses over to a school outside of their neighborhood on the other side of Columbia Pike. I don't know what on earth you're smoking, but it's some pretty good stuff. [/quote]

And I will add, right now the area I’m discussing crosses George Mason. They cross a major road right now. There are still plenty of apartments that would still be zoned to the school.[/quote]

They are in the Randolph walk zone. They are not in the Barcroft walk zone. [/quote]
No they don't.  Walk zones are entirely determined by the physical location of the school and it's surrounding streets.[/quote]

So you can have overlapping walk zones.[/quote]

They are not moving kids who walk to Randolph on an established and safe walking route over to Barcroft, which is further away. There's literally no reason that they would do this. The kids live in Douglas Park. They go to school in Douglas Park. The end. [/quote]

Half of Douglas Park doesn’t go to Randolph. The neighborhood is split right now. What I’m saying makes much more sense than what is currently happening. Half the neighborhood is buses now. If this change were to happen everyone would be a walker.
This really isn’t a outlandish idea.[/quote]

And the buses go to which school? [/quote]

Right now the buses go to Hoffman Boston[/quote]

I'm looking at the map right now and I only see a section of DP that goes to Henry. None that go Hoffman Boston. Are you sure those kids aren't just in the pre-K program there? That area of DP looks like it will be pulled into the Drew boundary.

Randolph, with its current boundary, has no buses. This is exactly how they want it, so I would expect too much to change.[/quote]

Please look at the map again. Part of the neighborhood is very clearly zoned HOFFMAN BOSTON. Look at the corner or 4 mile and Walter reed. 
And nowhere have I stayed buses would GO TO Randolph. 
What I am proposing keeps everyone as a walker. 
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I see what you're saying now. That area look like it would be moved to Drew. I'm not following how those kids could be walkers to Barcroft though. [/quote]

Drew? Why? They are out of the walk zone for Drew. that’s unlikely and not what I’m proposing.

I’m saying that slice of Douglas Park goes back to Randolph. The kids on the other side of the neighborhood are crossing a major road no matter what. The kids currently zoned H-B, if redirected to Randolph would entirely  be within the residential neighborhood. No crossing of major roads.

It’s approx . 2 mile diffenence either way for both groups. But my proposal keeps everyone currently a walker as a walker and adds more walkers. My proposal gets rid of buses.
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