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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read the whole thing.

The obvious solution is the one proposed in 2015 - put Dorothy Hamm MS at Rosslyn and move HBW back to their old home on Vacation Lane. Then kids who live near Vacation Lane can be bused to Williamsburg like they were in the good old days, or they can be be bused to the fancy new building in Rosslyn.[/quote]

They built out the Heights specifically for the Shriver program and now you just want to undo that? No. That's entirely inequitable.

Signed,

parent of a student with a disability[/quote]

Shriver Program is independent of the HB program and can stay. It does NOT have to be forever associated with HBW. That was used as an excuse for HB to keep the program and building small. [/quote

Well maybe Shriver HS students don't want to be in a middle school and want things to stay as is.

But it's not like the rest of you care about the disabled kids in Shriver. [/quote]

My kid was at HBW back in the day when the DR folk set their sights on HB's building. I sat through many meetings alongside the parents of the Stratford program students. The Stratford parents were adamant that they wanted to stay on Vacation Lane and they did not want their kids in Rosslyn under any circumstances. Eight years on with Shriver, you have a different view, and oppose what the Stratford parents fought to keep. I guess people just get used to what they know.[/quote]

You make it sound like some kind of coup.

The county announced they would build a new middle school, and said it would 1100 student warehouse in Rosslyn — meanwhile the largest plot of land for ANY middle school site was at Stratford for 700 seats.  Those were the circumstances that drove DR to “sight” on that particular APS building and plot. [/quote]

Look at you justifying kicking two programs out of their building and now you don't like result and want to undo it and want the place you rejected. Just no. We're done with you. [/quote]

I hope the school board stays strong.

I had to laugh at a keep Dorothy Hamm walkable sign that I saw in someone's front lawn. That house was in the bus eligible zone for DH and an equal distance from DHMS and WMS.[/quote]

Because Taylor wants to stay together dum dum.  And, there is no one in DHMS' walk zone that is "equal distance from DHMS and WMS."  No one.  [/quote]

Try N.26th St. Practically in the middle.[/quote]

Nope.   1) It is not equidistant.  2). Kids would have to cross Old Domonion and Williamsburg to walk the 2.2 miles to Williamsburg.  3) as the crow flies, thru Zachary Taylor, which most kids do, it’s way shorter.

And the Taylor families who they are moving often preferred to Taylor to the JES situation and like being at DHMS.  And their kids all want to stay together.  And they like that their children walk.  Finally, APS stupidly gave them this option like three years ago and are now trying to change it.  It’s not rocket science why the families are going to fight it.  [/quote]

Are you a student?

I don't know what the JES situation means.

The Taylor kids aren't going to stay together forever - aren't they split between Yorktown and Washington Liberty for high school? Wasn't the decision about Hamm made in 2014/2015, not "like" three years ago. I recall that because I attended many meetings at the time.

If the Yorktown bound ones go to Williamsburg, they'll have the advantage of knowing more people when they get to high school.

I went to a high school where only 4 kids from my prior school were in my grade. I sat with one of them on my first day of high school, and had new friends after that.

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