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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]

Hamm is near Rosslyn!  And yes they did complain about Williamsburg.

[b]What I can’t stand is the self-serving logic that comes out in these conversations.  Throwing any talking point at the wall which means my kid doesn’t have to…[/b]

Just say what it is.  I don’t want to be personally disrupted. [/quote]

Of course no wants to be personally disrupted. The neighborhoods with affordable apartments along the west end of Columbia Pike successfully lobbied the school board to keep their neighborhood bussed to W-L instead of being rezoned as a walking neighborhood to Wakefield. They succeeded, so other W-L neighborhoods much closer to W-L moved to Yorktown. The Ashlawn families are still miffed about being rezoned to Yorktown.

The families in the Woodbury Park apartments are likely still miffed about being zoned to TJ and Yorktown instead of Hamm and W-L.

There’s always give and take, and compromise. It’s a balancing act. Rosslyn is also closer to W-L yet they are bussed to Yorktown. If they remain bussed to Yorktown it only makes sense to consider re zoning Rosslyn and perhaps part of Lyon Village back to Williamsburg as an option. Such an option may keep families a block from Hamm in the Hamm zone. Otherwise maybe Rosslyn should just go to Hamm and W-L, the closer schools.

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