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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who are the people on here complaining about high school kids having 20 minute bus rides?  Holy snowflakes what has society become?  [/quote]
I believe they were saying it's 20 minutes in Google maps with no stops and no traffic.  That's a 40+ minute bus ride each way, easy.  I know my kid's bus ride to Hunters Woods and to Rachel Carson were 40-45 minutes each way.  Pretty much impossible to do extracurriculars or sports if the parents aren't lucky enough to have flexibility in their work schedule to pick them up early at school on practice days instead of waiting for the bus drop off.  Can't do anything about the 6:25am bus pick up time though.[/quote]

Why is Hunter Wood kid goes to Carson?  Hunter Wood goes to Hughes.

Anyway, sending kids south of 267 to Herndon HS is madness.  The toll road crossings are jammed during rush hours. [/quote]
AAP kids from Waples Mill go out of pyramid to Hunters Woods and then to Carson for middle school.  It makes no sense.  They should use the KAA opening as a chance to address the Carson/Franklin split feeder madness and force all the AAP kids from Franklin pyramids to go to Franklin.  It only works if it's forced though, otherwise everyone will always choose the center because all the friends they've been with the past few years are also going to Carson.[/quote]

Some AAP students from Navy, Waples Mill, Lees Corner, Oak Hill, and Brookfield choose to go to Franklin instead of Carson. Now it needs to be mandated. It is completely ridiculous that the county allows Franklin AAP students to choose Carson when Franklin has had an AAP program for something like 12 years.[/quote]

AAP centers in general - both middle and elementary - should be a thing of the past.  All kids should simply attend their base school.  Think how much simpler boundary discussions would be.
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Some ES don't have enough AAP kids to make a class.  Some ES are overcrowded and depend on sending their AAP kids somewhere else.  It  would require more boundary changes to make that happen.[/quote]

Then more boundary changes should happen. It is not equitable to allow AAP students to choose their school (between base and center) when other students cannot choose.

If there aren't enough students to fill a class, the country should pay to bus [u]those[/u] kids to another school, but [u]only[/u] those kids. It's the same as should be done for any student who's needs cannot be met at their base school (such as bussing D/HOH kids to Camelot or Frost, where ASL interpreters are available).[/quote]

Tell us you haven’t read any community feedback on boundary changes without telling us. Your equity push is so five years ago, and you’re an extreme outlier at this point to think that the solution to some vague, made up problem is MORE boundary changes.[/quote]

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