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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bet they delay it for another year or two. People in pretty much every middle school were furious about having to move, and that eventually is inevitable. But it's easier to just kick the can for a few years. [/quote]
I haven't heard that much furor.  The loudest are a few Taylor parents who don't think their kids should have to move to WMS, but that will likely be ignored as ridiculous.   And two Ashlawn PUs that don't want to be carved off the rest of the elementary school, but I think that can pretty easily be fixed. No one else has posted a significant number of comments.  [/quote]

I agree with this.  It's really not that big of a deal.  The Hamm people are just nuts.[/quote]

Sure you can call us names, but delaying won’t end end the outrage. The angriest people are those with little kids at Taylor who bought a home walking distance to an elementary and middle school, usually two working parent households where having walkable and independent students is a huge time savings.

We will be angry in two years, angry in 5 years, and likely will STILL campaign against the stupid “bus half the walkzone away” decision in perpetuity.

Kids will waste so much time waiting for and riding a bus needlessly. So this fight will only be over in December if the school board does the right thing, and moves Immersion to the school with the greatest capacity and uses the plan that minimizes bus costs and staffing.  That is probably moving it to WMS, but math whizs are welcome to prove otherwise. [/quote]
Haven't you read your own posts?  It doesn't matter how far away MS is located because parents NEVER have to go there and MS students are 100% fine taking the bus by themselves.  Transportation isn't an issue by MS, right?  That's what Taylor parents are posting.   :roll:

APS changes boundaries roughly every year.  If anyone bought not knowing that, then they should have done more research.  It's not exactly a secret.  [/quote]

It’s about independence and wasting time on a longer than necessary bus ride. Taylor students are almost universally ridiculously close to Hamm, and busing to WMS takes a circuitous route through neighborhoods.

It’s okay for option because that is part of the deal which you can always walk away from, to coin a phrase.

People who chose neighborhood prioritized proximity and short commutes to school. They don’t have a fallback.

And boundaries shouldn’t be changing every year, if they would just invest appropriately in facilities rather than blowing the budget on slides and award winning urban schools. [/quote]
If your issue is that kids should be able to walk, you're far more likely to get traction by proposing moving Hamm bus riders to WMS.  They're already getting on a bus and many were previously zoned to WMS.

There's no way that APS is going to move Immersion to WMS given the feeder patterns, logistics, and equity issues.   You can keep beating us over the head with the idea, but that isn't going to change those issues.  I'd pivot to a different proposal if you want any chance of staying a walker.[/quote]

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