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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Williamsburg is too underenrolled for them to do nothing while several other middle schools sit there at I full capacity or over.[/quote]

No other middle schools is over capacity.

People are free to transfer. [/quote]

I'm sure you'd find that solution equally helpful if Gunston were the vastly under-enrolled school and Williamsburg at/above capacity.[/quote]

At the elementary level, Drew has been underenrolled since Montessori moved out with no signs of that ever changing. APS is fine with letting a school be underenrolled if people aren't yelling about it. [/quote]

Drew's population is precisely the demographic that SHOULD be in a small school. Nottingham is not.[/quote]

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Same with Williamsburg.  Such a joke.

And voluntary transfers is not going to fill up Williamsburg.

The messaging that you should leave the rich kids under enrolled and it’s all good the rest of you are at capacity is so freaking typical N Arlington obnoxious.[/quote]

With the governor pulling funds and the county needing to raise estate taxes just to get APS to break even, you’re welcome to start a gofundme to pay for the buses and drivers that APS would need to turn the existing walkers at Swanson and Hamm into bus riders.

Personally I’d rather APS focus on what’s absolutely necessary this year, which will be hard enough as it is.[/quote]

Get real. The bus routes shift every year and they wouldn’t need to buy any new buses.  But good scare tactic.

Hey I’ve got an idea maybe they should let the walkers walk to Cardinal and then we can use their buses!  Oh wait we have to keep McKinley together and blah blah.

People trot out all their favorite arguments when it works for them.  It’s the Rolodex of catch phrases of arguments that suit my purpose.[/quote]

You aren’t paying attention. If you convert walkers into rider you absolutely need new buses not just new routes. [/quote]

The transportation department has more flexibility than what you are portraying to deal with changes.  These same buses take elementary, high school, and option school kids on their routes.  Sure it might be a new bus or buses on the middle school run but doing this at the margins, which is what you’re talking about here, they sort it out.  They also do things like add a couple stops to existing routes on buses that are less full.  All 3 of my kids have been busers and their routes change year to year and the buses are not even that full typically.[/quote]

You don’t understand. The proposal was to move 1/2 of Hamm, almost all walkers, to WMS. [/quote]
A big chunk of those kids were technically in the walk zone, but I have serious doubts that many of those kids walk.  It's too far on streets without sidewalks.  And many of the kids they were moving to Hamm would have been walkers too (e.g., most of Glebe).[/quote]

Have you even been by Hamm after school, kids are ALL OVER walking, for miles beyond the school. What are you talking about, almost every street has sidewalks in DHMS zone. Anyways, we don’t provide bus transport, and when rezoned we will have to. [/quote]

I have a kid in the walk zone for Swanson at the far edge.  Many people drive them in the morning because of the early start time and then they walk home in the afternoon in decent weather but get picked up after school too.  I'm sure it's the same for Hamm.  The walk zones for the middle school and high school are really quite big.[/quote]
It's a big "walk zone" and I do seriously doubt a lot of the kids are really walking it.  I just checked a few locations with Google maps and it's saying it would take 30-35 minutes to walk to Hamm from some locations that APS deems walkable.  That's a long way with major streets to cross.

I have a kid in the middle of the Hamm walk zone and even her walk is even pretty far (20-25 minutes).  Parents in our neighborhood with kids further away typically won't have their kid walk, especially in the morning but often not at all.  
 
[url]https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2023/08/MS_Hamm_SY23_24.pdf[/url]

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