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[quote=Anonymous]22:19 poster here.  let me clarify my point about the 45 minute bus-ride for the subsequent poster who thought this was simply not true.  parents on my block actually timed the commute -- one parent walked his son to the bus-stop, while his wife drove to the school (she was coming from an early dental appt) to participate in some class activity first thing that morning -- her son's bus didn't arrive until 45 minutes after it left the bus-stop.  so no, i'm not making it up.  and this apparently was not a day when the bus was somehow unusually slow.  it happened time and time again.

obviously, how long a bus-ride takes depends on *where you live* -- for those parents claiming the bus-ride is shorter, consider the possibility that perhaps your bus-stop is physically closer to the school.   for those of us zoned for taylor who live next door to ASFS, our kids have to sit on a bus for 45 minutes instead of a literally 5 minute walk to ASFS.

as to "whiny" being apt, let me be clear -- this is not a complaint about taylor.  we consider ourselves extremely lucky to have taylor as an option.  my point is that the boundaries don't make sense from a systemic perspective.   same goes for the kids who live next to taylor who now have to be bused to jamestown.  it's an inefficient use of resources to pay for buses to send kids to schools that are much further away than the schools close to their homes.  if ASFS were truly a choice school with county-wide lottery, i'd have no complaint about busing to taylor.   but that it functionally is a neighborhood school for a community that has to be bused to it makes the current boundary make absolutely no sense.

if you're going to engage in the conversation, again, then please substantively engage in the issues rather than falling back on ad hominem attacks.  it undermines your arguments.[/quote]

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