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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the Hamm people complaining, what is your proposal to fill Williamsburg then?  Who should get bused over there?  Not your children.  We’ve got that.[/quote]

Restore the “Rosslyn Island.” The Rosslyn students in high density housing were zoned to Williamsburg up until 2019 or so when the boundaries last changed. [b]No one except APS staff complained about it since it looked “weird.”[/b]

It contributed to socio-economic diversity and also helped fill the school since Williamsburg is in an area of low density single family homes. [/quote]

Rosslyn families complained. But I guess they shouldn’t have a voice. [/quote]

Rosslyn students would either be bussed to Williamsburg or Hamm. I think homes a block away from Hamm within view of the school itself should be zoned to Hamm over bussing neighborhoods from Rosslyn.

Of course Rosslyn families should have a voice. But their options are limited since there are no middle schools near Rosslyn. [/quote]

Because the Taylor families complained having about a Rosslyn middle school. 
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There’s no sense in dredging up the past. A number of factors came into play which the school board voted on. We have to work with the schools we have now.

The families at the affordable Woodbury Park apartments near the Clarendon Whole Foods did publicly complain about the boundary island and being bussed to Williamsburg and Yorktown instead of Hamm and W-L. Unfortunately they ended up being bussed to TJ instead of Hamm, while still going to Yorktown. So Woodbury Park kids are now more isolated than ever. They should probably be zoned to Hamm and W-L with the Science Focus families, while the Innovation neighborhoods in Rosslyn and Lyon Village should be zoned to Williamsburg and Yorktown. [/quote]

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