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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as walking to asfs, there are a lot of concerns with crossing kirkwood to widen its walk zone.  Currently only a handful of kids walk to school, mostly from the Clarendon area. Those parents who walk regularly have expressed deep concerns about people regularly crossing kirkwood— it’s objectuvely not a safe road to cross and little can be done short of adding a traffic light.  The county has to do a traffic study before doing something like that, so any traffic mitigation’s would be a few years off.  There’s a bunch of extra concerns like the back stairs would need to be widened and a handicap ramp added, which is difficult since the county does not own the land directly next to the stairs (it’s someone’s house on either side).  They likely will expand the walk zone to include part of Lyon village, but I really hope it doesn’t result in someone being hit by a car.
As far as the swap goes, there are three things:
1.  I think the schools would likely change names, but who cares.
2.  They have said explicitly when asked by parents from asfs that they would move the equipment and any improvements made to the extent possible.  
3.  I can’t see Taylor still existing if asfs becomes a neighborhood school.  Maybe they do ats —> Taylor and immersion to ats.  But that seems like a lot of work especially if ats is more vocal than cherrydale is.  But what do I know 
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The biggest reason why currently only a handful of kids walk to ASFS has nothing to do with safety and is because the vast majority of students who COULD walk there are not allowed to attend and are instead bused to Taylor.[/quote]

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