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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have two cars ourselves but know many families at our school who don’t have a car or just have one car. These families walk, bike, and bus around town.

Not sure why that’s so hard for the nasty posters to believe. There are tons of families who live in the high-density areas along the R-B corridor. And more buildings going up every year. Get your head out of your ass and you will notice these things. [/quote]
Please, give me a break!  Here we go again.  Sorry, this is not NYC.  You are right that there are many families with children that live along R-B corridor but wrong that they don't have cars - however, this is irrelevant to APS planning.  THey have no requirement to make some special accomodations for people who do not own cars.  They have a plan in place for these people - they are called school busses!  I get that your Larlo is too precious to ride one but that's the plan for your child, you just don't like it.  Not APS's problem.  You're preference for walking doesn't require APS to bend over backwards to develop some special plan to accommodate you.[/quote]

How about spending less energy arguing over the benefits of each lifestyle and putting it into advocating for a new ES in the RB corridor rather than taking an established one away and displacing students at whatever school they move it to? These are existing schools, full of APS kids that still have to be educated somewhere and moved at taxpayers expense. I’m not sure how moving schools around fixes any of this apart from some people get to “walk” (which in truth means drive their cars) and some people don’t; it’s just changing the group that benefits based on who moved there most recently.[/quote]

If you think another new ES can be built before choice programs have to move, I don’t know what to say. “You’re delusional”, perhaps.[/quote]

Where in the world could they put an Elem? Wilson/HB site would have been good but that ship sailed. Dawson Terrace?  Hillside Park (that’s a pretty useless park)[/quote]

The county board needs to return some rec centers to APS, convenient locations or not. [/quote]

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