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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Normative, positive, whatever PP.  If the major arterials were effectively boundaries for ALL neighborhood schools, then yes, you have a point.  But my kids' neighborhood school is on the other side of a major arterial as are many Hearsters, Murchers, and bet many others schools in the District.  This may fly in a large suburban district, but much less so in a quasi urban area.  [/quote]

Look, my children have to cross an arterial (state-named) for elementary school too. I get it. But we should aim for situations in which this isn't the case. [/quote]

Then you are going to have to build a lot more school buildings to get what you want -- kids in Wards 3 and 4 cross Reno, Conn., Wisc., Nebraska, Military, Nevada, River, Mass., etc. to get to elementary schools. We live in a city (a fairly tame one, but still it is a city). Where would the kids in Forrest Hills or those north of Nebraska between Wisconsin and Connecticut go to school if they didn't cross a major road? Murch is squeezed into the tip of a triangle bordered by major roads, so almost no one can get there without crossing a major road except for the families everyone says should be rezoned to Hearst. So the major artery argument seems like a nonstarter.[/quote]

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