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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think any of the Cherrydale families were bullied but the Clarendon/Courthouse/Rosslyn/Lyon Village folks sure are reaping what they sowed when the declared Kirkwood was too dangerous to cross but are now claiming the Rosslyn folks must attend ASFS because they have to walk from the metro. My map says the quickest walking route from Clarendon metro to ASFS is .6 miles and VA Square is .8 miles. Both routes either cross or walk along Kirkwood. So, by their own logic, Rosslyn families should not be zoned to ASFS and be forced to risk their lives crossing Kirkwood to get to Extended Day. [/quote]

First of all it was the county that said Kirkwood was too busy to cross. Secondly, the quickest route is Art 55 and parents would take the bus and walk 0.3 miles.

Second, you are conflating street crossing for solo children (the walk zone) versus parents pickup up kids. Do you think 5th graders are taking metro on their own in APS.

At the end of the day, for Rosslyn the closest neighborhood school with the most direct traffic is ASFS — that’s why the parents are defending it, b/c LB and Taylor require mixing with arterial roads during rush hours. 
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Looks like Clarendon/Courhouse can walk with a parent just fine to Long Branch.  It's less than a mile as depicted by this map.  https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ES_LongBranch_WZ_Policy_Final.pdf

You can even take the off-street trail so you don't have to cross any busy roads.  Looks like a fine solution to me, and fixes the loudest part of the problem. [/quote]
What off street trail bypasses wash blvd from Courthouse/Clarendon?
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Walking from day Rocky Run would be possible for a parent, but a child can’t cross 10th or Washington Blvd on their own, and there are few crossing lights on either road. [/quote]

A child can’t cross Wilson either to go to ASF ... that’s why there is a bus and there will continue to be a bus. It just may go to different schools.  Clearly these folks haven’t been through boundary changes before. [/quote]

We have been through changes but usually it’s dictated by professionals on the school board staff, not the loudest parents with matching T-shirts.

Subjecting kids to bus rides that take twice as long than any current Taylor student just bc a bunch of parents complained loudly is hardly fair nor how most boundary processes go. Generally in re zoning people on the edge simply go the school across the boundary which is not any further.  Rosslyn to Taylor is creating a long thin peninsula like Ashlawn.

Definitely the MS boundary showed that if parents complain loud enough or cry at school board meetings they can sway the board.

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Since you brought it up, what exactly is the issue with the ASFS T-shirts?  The only T-shirts I'm aware of were those of parents and teachers who didn't want the school moved.  Unless you were in favor of swapping schools you have nothing to be offended over.  If you are all about creating alternate facts and stirring up controversy for your own twisted ends then I understand.  Let everyone judge for themselves.  What exactly is so bad about what the T-shirt people said?

https://www.apsva.us/post/school-board-meeting-april-19-2018/
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While you are at it look at all the other Arlingtonians advocating for their schools.  What about the Key parents in the video?  How do you think they feel about you trying to take over their school?
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