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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^yes.  What is being talked about is taking walkers and having them wake up 30 minute earlier to catch a 40-min bus ride (accounting for drop off and pick ups).

Real brainy idea there.  Especially when kids across the street will remain walkers.

#family/neighborhoodorientedgreencountyinitiativeS.

And I saw County Board members that have denied more schools are currently asking for a pay raise.  You can't make this stuff up...[/quote]

The above is talking about shipping rich white kids to Wakefield. Not what's on the table.[/quote]

Shipping rich white WALKERS on a bus that will add 40+ minutes on each side of their day to YHS is what is on the table.

Support less pollution, more HS sleep time and keeping neighborhood kids at the same HS.  Less bussing of HS kids that can safely walk to and from school!'

Less buses and HS drivers on our roads.[/quote]

You're stuck pages back people. I solved it. You can stay where you are for now wealthy white walkers, but we're taking Arlington Forest (north) to Wakefield, you know, for contiguity and keeping neighborhoods together (the southern half of the neighborhood is already at Wakefield, and we all go to the same pool and neighborhood events and Kenmore MS), and Yorktown gets the east end of Columbia Pike for the diversity they seek (those kids are on a bus no matter what; it is about 3 miles to Wakefield and W-L, and 5 miles to Yorktown, so not a huge difference). Problem solved.  I think this is a reasonable solution that doesn't rebuild the wheel but also doesn't blow up one of our three high schools in a way that will have more affluent families scrambling to cram themselves into the walk zone at W-L. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to deliberately turn one of your three schools into a high poverty school that people are wary of when you NEED those seats and to have ALL the families who are headed for those seats happy to occupy them instead of trying to transfer or move into one of the other schools.

In this scenario, the units on the Western end of Columbia Pike stay at W-L where they've been for decades. Transfers from W-L into Wakefield will still be allowed for at least the next few years, so if walkability is such a great concern for those students or their families, that option is still available to them. If we just rezone them, then they have no choices. Seems like it's pretty unfair to take choices away from those already at a greater disadvantage. If we leave them alone, they can decide on an individual basis. This is the only way they'll get to choose because of the economic barriers that have been put up around most areas of Arlington.

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