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So now that everyone must be able to walk to their closest school, the neighborhoods that are zoned in such a way that their schools aren't as likely to become overcrowded due to lower density of housing/higher housing costs are just going to be able to remain under capacity in perpetuity. Sounds equitable to me. [/quote]

Proximity has always been a primary factor in school assignments. That isn’t new.

And planning for a program at WB to draw students from across the county is no more harebrained than gerrymandering boundaries or extensive busing schemes. There’s no “in perpetuity” here. [/quote]

That's the problem their is one group that can walk and is being forced elsewhere. [/quote]

Where? In Option A? No, there's not.

I'm really sick of hearing about some people being "forced" elsewhere. Yeah, that's what happens in a boundary reassignment. And sometimes, it will be you and other times not. And because we didn't build the schools in perfect locations, you may have to be moved to a school that isn't the exact closest one, in order to balance enrollment and other community concerns. [/quote]

I think pp is referring to kids who are going to Kenmore in this map and are outside of the official walk zone for Swanson, but can cut down the bike path and it's feasible to walk so their parents want them zoned for Swanson instead. Nevermind that APS would still need to send a bus through its full route in those neighborhoods.[/quote]

But there aren't any kids N of 50 going to Kenmore in Option A who aren't already zoned Kenmore.  Instead of sending some Swanson PU's to Kenmore, they're sending one or two to Williamsburg, which doesn't really accomplish anything other than sending a few kids to a school farther away, turning them from walkers to bus rides while doing nothing for diversity.

Again, this isn't going to work out perfectly and some kids are going to have to be moved to schools further away unless we're just not going to bother to balance capacity at all. At least when they do send kids to schools further away, it should be in furtherance of an additional goal. There are schools being split to 3 different MS in South Arlington, and PU's being sent to schools that are further away then their current ones. Where's the outrage over that? [/quote]

You mean the Madison Manor folks west of Sycamore/Roosevelt who technically are within the walk zone for Swanson? I suspect that was an alignment decision. If they moved those PUs south of 29 to Swanson, then the Tuckahoe kids north of 29 would end up going to middle school with only a handful of their elementary school peers; at that point you might as well move all of Tuckahoe to Swanson, but then that makes the Williamsburg capacity disparity even worse. You can't fix the capacity issue on the eastern side without slicing off a small piece of the Taylor and separating them from their elementary peers (like we would have just rejected doing to Tuckahoe); to the south, the Glebe folks have already rejected slicing off some of them for Williamsburg. The best place to take some planning units is to take the half of Tuckahoe that is just at the boundaries of the walk zone to Swanson and where plenty of families would prefer a bus for safety reasons (even if they're not the ones shouting otherwise on DCUM) and send the other half to Swanson. 
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