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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people are missing the big picture about this boundary shift most of the people who are being moved from Murch to Hearst could walk to Murch but will have to drive to Hearst - that is a huge difference.  It has nothing to do with school quality and everything to do with convenience.  The idea that you could live two blocks from one school but have to go to a school 15 blocks away in a city that wants to encourage more green transportation is absurd.  [/quote]

Except that is not true.  They have a short walk to Murch that is true.  And they would have longer walk to Hearst, and that is less desirable.  But they still can walk if they want to.  The two schools (a farther distance than almost any of folks in the zone would have to walk) are only a mile apart. [/quote]

From my house Murch is 2 flat blocks down 36th st.  Hearst is .8 miles on a very hilly road.  The first one I can do easily with my 5 year old, the second one would be almost two miles round trip - that's 35 minutes to even begin my normal commute and that's if my 5 year old can walk at my pace.  I'm not going to do that, so i'll drive.  And you know what, i'll probably just get in  my car and keep driving to work, because metro is always a crapshoot and I'll add another car to the already congested roads, because at this point it becomes all about me and much less about what is good for others, since DC apparently doesn't care about me and my family.  [/quote]

And I agree that is much less convenient (although I would suggest that you needn't walk all the way back home, it would be easier and closer to walk directly to the metro after the drop-off at school).  But if your argument is about congestion on the roads, the switch will actually reduce it.  Because although you might get on the road, you (though not really you, because no current family is actually going to move, so you don't actually have anything to worry about) will be replacing an OOB family who is driving across the city to drop off their child.  Much greater reduction in traffic.[/quote]

Except that 10% of the seats at both Murch and Hearst will be reserved for OOB kids (current incoming Murch classes are much lower than that!) and they will add 10% OOB to Janney and to Lafayette and the schools on the west side.  It is a nightmare.   [/quote]

PP, what part of 10% OOB kids is "a nightmare"?[/quote]

The added traffic.  [/quote]

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