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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ why would they? They have no affordable housing near them. They are used to the status quo - which is them being untouched.  If rhetoric really heats up about the west end of Columbia Pike being shifted to Yorktown, I'm sure we'll hear from 22207. [/quote]

So which is it?  The accusations that Yorktown parents "are fighting against FARMS kids being moved to their school" or that they are complacent so unbothered by the whole thing?

There are so many blind prejudices on APS threads. [/quote]

Reread and put your thinking cap on... I believe at this time, they aren't worried. We have heard on this thread and many  others that they oppose hypothetical social engineering. Their children shouldn't bused, they paid a premium for their school, the county should keep neighborhoods together, its bad for the environment... 
they don't have to worry this go around. [b]The tool won't let you divert an island from the western Pike. [/b]They've plenty of terrible things to say, when they really weren't being threatened. What do you think is going to happen if the prospect of a western Pike island builds some steam?[/quote]

Somebody did it upthread without creating an island by connecting PUs on the west all the way down to Columbia Pike, if I'm ot mistaken.[/quote]

It didn't quite work. I was one who tried. The Western Pike PUs with the high FARMs rates just weren't allowed to go to Yorktown. I got error messages about splitting attendance zones. Someone suggested it was probably because to build a continuous zone required picking up multiple PUs north of the Pike, and then adding the Western Pike units just became too many kids moving and I guess would then overcrowd YHS. But in any event, doesn't seem it can be done in the current exercise. [/quote]

Then shouldn't you take it up with the SB/APS who hired the consultants to create that tool?  Obviously, demographics may have not been in the forefront of their minds when trying to deal with this immediate overcrowding issue facing HS students in the 2017-2021 classes?  They need to balance the other factors as well, for example, not needing to pay for more bussing in an already strained system.

But some of the folks on this thread have been freely flinging insults at an entire zip code just b/c some of the threads may have argued for other considerations.  They may not have even been from Yorktown parents.  Maybe they were from WL parents?  And then you'll just say, but wait until they do get impacted, then they'll care.  Yeah, of course.  That's generally how it is.  When you are not directly impacted, you tend to tune out things more.  At some point they will voice their opinions (i.e., county-wide rezoning for HS) and at that point you'll probably have alienated any of the more sympathetic parents.  You can then brush that off with the refrain that we were all secretly racist anyway and so  we would never have joined any movement to balance demographics more throughout all 3 schools.  I know I am definitely feeling less sympathetic to your cause now.  [/quote]

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