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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Lorton Station the school that hosted the Hagel Circle kids for a year or two?

If so, that is where they should go, not Halley or Gunston.[/quote]

Yup, it’s also the only school where the Hagel Circle kids can walk too. [/quote]

Why would that be so crucial, to be able to walk when a lot of Fairfax county students cannot walk to school. There is a bus for that reason and if they miss the bus, they have parents who drive. [b]Most Lorton residents have cars in order to live in this area. [/b]

You know the real reason why you don’t want Hagel Circle part of Gunston…. I was there on the 22nd Of October. Discrimination 100% based on their socio-economic status and their demographics. [/quote]

Your privilege is showing.  Many families along the Rt. 1 corridor (yes, Hagel Circle is right off of Rt. 1) do not have reliable transportation - maybe the family only has one vehicle and that parent is unable to do drop off/pick up because of their work schedule and the bell schedule.  The bus that runs along Rt. 1 is always full of people catching it to go and up down the highway for groceries, shopping.  There is a grocery store (Food Lion) 1.2 miles from the complex.  People along the corridor routinely walk a mile or more to shop/go to work/go to school.  During the workday, you see countless women (usually women) with babies/toddlers walking up and down Rt. 1 carrying grocery bags.  Yes, Hagel Circle is further away from most of the retail on Rt. 1 but the housing prices are significantly less than further north in the Mount Vernon area (another area full of low income families.). 
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Let’s say your assumption is correct that most families there have reliable transportation to get to school, why would you bring that up if you don’t live there. Doesn’t it seem ironic that people outside the neighborhood were bringing that factor up, that Hagel Circle should be assigned a school that is walkable? The parents of Gunston were bringing that up and not one Hagel Circle parent brought that issue up, that it should be walkable. You know the goal is to keep Hagel Circle out of Gunston Elementary and you have no right to do that since it is Public Property. You do not have more right over that. They are Lorton Residents as well. I don’t have any problem welcoming Hagel Circle into Lorton Station but that would require Woods of Fairfax to be assigned to Gunston. Based on you alls behavior that night, you wouldn’t want that because they are Low Income, high minority neighborhood as well.

Lorton Station is technically walkable, but it is quite a walk. Check google maps, Mapquest, etc and you can see it easily takes between 30-45 minutes to walk there. Let’s say that it’s between the months of November to March, it’s really cold. Would FCPS want a 8 year old child walking in those temps?

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