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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The boundary is too big and weirdly shaped. Most people within the boundary are closer to another school on the Hill, so they go there instead. Watkins then becomes a school for Ward 7 and 8.[/quote]

This. We are zoned for LT, but less than two blocks away, some are zoned for Watkins. A 2nd grader can't walk all the way there!  
Also, having siblings in different buildings is awful. They need to redraw the boundaries Pronto.[/quote]

Well having siblings in different buildings is fine if they are near each other, which is why you see quite a few families that lottery into L-T with proximity preference for 1st but their younger sibling may finish out at least PK at Peabody. The commute between those schools is super easy -- it's just a few blocks and one parent could do it within the drop off window, on foot.

That's not possible for Peabody and Watkins, I don't understand why that's ever been tolerated, to be honest.[/quote]

There were buses that ran from each school to the other every morning and afternoon, from the time the Cluster was created to the pandemic. My kids used those buses the entire time we were in the Cluster. It was how my kid at Watkins was able to do aftercare with his sibling at Peabody so I could pick up in one location. [/quote]

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