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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]It’s not that hard to figure out. Some people simply like walking, biking. [/quote]

Then take a nice walk or bike ride.  It's one single factor among many factors in deciding boundaries and school use and not every kid who could walk to school is going to be able to walk to school.[/quote]

Ok? I agree that it’s one of many factors that should be considered for boundary planning.

PP seemed confused about why some people prefer to walk their kids to school.

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You might be missing the context of recent debates around this topic.  APS needs to do redo middle school boundaries and it started a massive outcry on this very topic.  People who want their children to continue to walk to school are willing to throw just about anyone under the bus (no pun intended) just so long as their kids get to keep walking.[/quote]

"Walking" is such a ridiculous red-herring. All it means is they don't want to give up that particular school, because no kid is "walkable" to their elementary AND middle AND high school. At some point, they aren't "walking."[/quote]

Huh? People near me do walk/bike to ES/MS/HS. 22201 
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You must be a uniquely situated neighborhood. So how far are they [b]walking[/b] to each school? [/quote]
My kids are going to walk to ES, MS and HS unless APS does something insane with boundaries.  And lots of kids do indeed walk, as observed by the ant trails of kids walking through the neighborhood every day.  Glebe --> Hamm --> WL

All are under a mile.  Two are under 0.5 mi.[/quote]
The same is true for portions of ASFS.[/quote]

OK. I'll edit my comment. The majority of kids are not able to walk to all three levels of school without moving. [/quote]

I believe just about all kids who attend Hamm/WL are walkable to their ES/MS/HS. 
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I’m not sure about that.  Roughly half of the Hamm zone is eligible for the bus, and that zone includes a lot of high density housing. I don’t think it’s most let alone all kids.  I wonder if they have data on that, though.[/quote]

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