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Like I said, I support H. It evens out Kenmore without overburdening either TJ or Gunston. My conclusion from comparing all the maps is that fr/l rates are projected to rise in the south overall. That is a function of geography and of non-school policy choices made years before. This looks to me like the best we can do without some artificial island. It is certainly the best we can do of the proposals on the table. Whether the SB will swoop in with some made-up hybrid option at the last minute is a different story, of course.

H isn't without real costs - see the Swanson parent poster, who I genuinely feel for. I don't have a middle schooler so I can't say that this is a small thing to that small group of families. We aren't in the walk zone for any school, in fact. On balance, I'd vote to sacrifice the interests of that small group in walking in favor of what I believe to be best for about half the county's students. Not to say it's a free choice though.[/quote]

So it's ok for an 11 year old to walk 1.5 miles using the bike trail so she can cross Rt 50 (before sunrise for part of the year), rather than walk the 0.5 miles to the school next to their house? That scenario should really help the traffic around Kenmore and Swanson. No way I'm letting my daughter make that walk.[/quote]

To be perfectly clear- she would be going under Route 50- Carlin Springs goes under Route 50 and has wide sidewalks along this underpass-- not crossing it.  Similar to how she is currently crossing 66.[/quote]

Not the same at all. Right now our DH kids walk a block over Patrick Henry in our own neighborhood. From my house it's about a 5-6min walk. Instead option H would do one of three things. Get her up a lot earlier to catch a bus. Get her up a lot earlier to walk on a dark trail that I won't even run on alone in the dark. By the way, do a crime report run on the number of sexual assaults and robberies along the W&OD and Four Mile Run trails in the last few years and tell me you'd be comfortable with your prepubescent child walking there alone. Or, I drive her, thus contributing to all the traffic that the Carlin Springs neighborhood objected to with the idea of a high school there.

1.5mi walk zones are a joke. For many of us, our walk zone is under half a mile, and yes, the kids walk. 
Want real diversity, start swapping kids between South Arlington and Williamsburg. Until then, if you have a school remaining under 10% FARMS in what you claim is a relatively small county, then this is lip service to diversity while sacrificing every other factor that APS claims it takes into consideration. [/quote]

It's not lip service. Are the options perfect? No, but parents complained about the islands and APS listened and decided there will be no more islands or carve-outs, and the location of Stratford makes it really difficult to preserve diversity or increase it at Williamsburg.

Doing nothing because we can't do everything is just about the most pathetic argument I've heard. It's like gun nuts who insist we shouldn't regulate firearms because we'll never stop ALL criminals from gaining access to firearms. [/quote]

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