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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a Wayside parent who is unhappy with the changes.

Wootton is a great school, but it’s an extra 20 minutes away from our house. Falls Road is already super congested, especially during rush hour.

My kids can walk and bike to Churchill, but definitely can’t to Wootton.

Hoover and Churchill are right next to each other. They literally share a field. It makes no sense to break Hoover up.

Under all four scenarios, I will have kids in middle school at Hoover and high school at Wooton at the same time.  Coordinating pick ups from after school school programs is going to get harder, and will add to traffic on Falls Road.

And it sad that my kids will make a bunch of friends at Hoover and then have to leave them behind.

I have neighbors whose siblings are going to get split up.  They’ll be waiting for different buses to take them to different schools in the mornings.

I know these aren’t huge problems in the grand scheme of things, but it’s a really disruptive change and doesn’t make geographic sense. 
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I’m a Frost parent with very similar concerns. The connection between Frost and Wootton is extremely close. You walk down the hill behind Frost, and you’re at Wootton. The schools have shared events - for example, my Frost kid’s chorus concerts have been at Wootton and have included performances from both Frost groups and Wootton groups. These connections are how you build a community.

As it stands, all Frost kids are assigned to Wootton. And their transition to high school is made so much easier by already having familiarity with Wootton staff, kids, and facilities. It would be a shame to break up Frost and destroy this community, particularly when Frost and Wootton don’t suffer from the overcrowding issues that we are trying to solve with all this. I really hope they try to minimize disruption and keep communities together.
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