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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d like to see 3 maps:  Immersion moved to ATS, Carlin Springs and Barcroft. In the Immersion to ATS, move ATS to Barcrft and let’s see that map. [/quote]
I'm still not getting how everyone cries "walkability" and you can't put a program in a highly walkable neighborhood school because we should be maximizing walkers and minimizing transportation costs, etc.; yet people keep pushing the idea of an option program at Barcroft - one of the most walkable schools.

Hypocrites.[/quote]

Barcroft has a crazy high transfer rate without having any historical neighborhood preference or other weirdness that I know about other than being in the old Campbell attendance zone. I don't think it's an ideal option school location, but when 299 out of 679 (44%) in the attendance zone are opting out, perhaps it should be considered. [/quote]

That is entirely irrelevant of the walkability issue.  All it indicates is that even MORE students would/could be walking there than already do, which is a very large portion of the student body.  It only has 3 buses - and that third bus was only added recently.[/quote]

But if APS is paying to bus half the school around anyway, it won’t be a sea change for anyone. Option kids aren’t coming back, not even if they close the option schools (which they aren’t). Even if it’s walkable, if most of the people who could walk their kids there WON’T, what is the point? Does walkability matter so much? I don’t think it does. [/quote]

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