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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]people here are so foul. i am not in favor of option schools but if there are unsafe bus stops it shouldn’t matter where kids go. APS has so many issues at this point let’s just add this to the list. please stop making jabs at families who entered a lottery and got in and put that time and energy to writing APS about stopping lottery schools. or any of the other issues we all have with APS.

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What OP is describing isn't an unsafe bus stop.  It is at an elementary school that many other children, OP's neighbors in fact, walk to every day.  But that's not good enough for OP.  OP wants to go to an option school that, by definition, needs to serve the whole county geography, and thinks they also deserve door to door bus service.  Enough already.    [/quote]

OP is not complaining that the stop is unsafe. It's the route the kids have to walk to to get to the stop that is  unsafe. If APS considers major roads in determining walk zones for neighborhood schools, they should be giving the same consideration to hub stops.[/quote]

Ehhh...it seems that OP did directly say that the hub is unsafe, she asked why Glebe admin, parents, teachers weren't worried about Glebe parents mingling with option children or whatever it is she's worried about? What I don't understand is that OP's kids would have otherwise attended Glebe and would have had to cross Glebe Rd and most 5th graders are crossing alone to/from school. It seems to me she's just anti her own neighborhood, which tracks with an option school for many. I hope my kid gives her cooties. [/quote]

Can you read? OP said that APS is providing a crossing guard for glebe students need one but not when the option school students need one. [/quote]

Yeah, good try OP. Here's what you originally wrote, "To boot, the parents mill around Glebe ES in the afternoon waiting for our own children's bus to arrive; often while Glebe kindergarten kids are having class outside on nice days. How is this not a huge safety and security concern for Glebe admins, teachers and parents?"

As a Glebe parent, no I have no safety concerns. But you do come across as really entitled to have someone else solve your self inflicted problem. Either teach your 5th grader to cross the street at Glebe without the crossing guard, while also watching their siblings, or walk your children. Or, wild thought here, make some adult friends who can take turns walking kids to the hub. Plenty of Glebe kids cross without the crossing guard because they get to school before she arrives or after she leaves, because they are in patrol, run clubs, enrichment and so on. Is crossing at Glebe ideal or reliably safe, nope, but also it seems to be both (a) your neighborhood school and thus the route your kids would take anyhow; and (b) your choice to attend an option. Lobby for a change in hubs stops to APS but don't pretend that there aren't decisions you can personally make to help your own kids.

And considering how hard it is to find and keep crossing guards, no I don't think we should be paying for a crossing guard to help a few kids across a busy road in their own neighborhood simply because their parents chose to not use the neighborhood school. We all have to make the same decisions that you are making, we just take ownership of them. Either utilize the option system and advocate for a change to hubs or grow up and take responsibility for your choice to utilize an option and its impact on your kid's safety. In short, pound sand.

Can I read...ha...yes, yes I can. [/quote]

I’m not OP though. You are so hostile to parents of option schools. Quite pathetic really.[/quote]

Yes, I'm hostile to entitled parents who do not take responsibility for their own choices. Correct. [/quote]

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