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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't believe anything is "safe" at this point. My kid rides a bus to a middle school where there is not a single walker. All the kids in the same neighborhood, even those across the street or on the same block as the middle school take a bus to another middle school that is 10 minutes away. [/quote]

That's a school without a walk zone. But if your school has a walk zone (which almost all of them do), and you live within that walk zone, then you will be "safe" to remain a walker.[/quote]

[b]When there are houses that are literally a short walking distance of the school, yes, there is a walk zone. [/b] MCPS just chooses not to have it to justify its decisions. At the upcounty boundary study, they had an opportunity to revise the boundaries for Neelsville Middle School so that kids within walking distance to that school can attend and walk to that school instead of continuing to take the bus to MLK MS. They didn't do that. Demographics is their primary priority; the other factors are secondary. Full stop.[/quote]

Nope. If there is no safe walking route, then it is not a walk zone, even if it's literally across the street (355 and Germantown Road, in the case of Neelsville Middle School). You want more kids to walk? Then you should push the county and the state for safe routes to school.[/quote]

I'm talking about Stratford Knolls community which is on the same side of 355 as Neelsville Middle School- where homes are less than a mile away from the school. I don't know how much safer you want those kids to walk. All the kids have to do is walk the nice, safe sidewalks of Shakespeare Blvd. and Neelsville Church Rd. where the school is. Kids don't have to step foot on 355 at all. [/quote]

So you want Sally K. Ride ES to split articulate to THREE middle schools - MLK, Clemente, and Neelsville? Do you live in this neighborhood and want your child to walk to Neelsville, or do you live in an area which got reassigned from Rocky Hill/Clarksburg to Neelsville/Seneca Valley, and you're still angry about it and you think those [i]other[/i] homeowners/kids [i]over there[/i] should have been assigned to Neelsville/Seneca Valley instead of you/your kids?[/quote]

Calm down. I was simply making a point that [b]no distance from a school will keep one safe from being rezoned[/b]. As you can see with Neelsville, the neighborhood that is perfectly a short and safe walk to the school was not rezoned to the school during the upcountry boundary study. MCPS has a more important priority when considering school assignments. And as for the split articulation at Sally Ride, well they could just have 2; Clemente and Neelsville; or MLK and Neelsville. Regardless, one of those schools should be Neelsville.  [/quote]

[b]Because getting rezoned is dangerous.[/b] :roll: [/quote]

Tell me you're deflecting without telling me you're deflecting.[/quote]

Deflecting from what? Yet another discussion on DCUM about a decision you disagree with from a three-year-old boundary study that didn't even affect you? You're going to be like those homeowners in Horizon Hill, still talking about the upcounty boundary study in 2055, except without the justification (such as it is) of the hit to your property value.[/quote]

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