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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is the school board or staff so keen to move unit 1502 from W-L to Yorktown?  It's moving in 3 out of 4 of the offered scenarios.  It's currently walkable to W-L, and it just had its elementary school moved from Glebe to McKinley during the recent redistricting fiasco.  AGAIN?  Can't they just leave us alone?

I didn't object to the Glebe/McKinley move and I don't want to be one of those entitled parents who object to everything APS does.  But I like W-L and I heard Yorktown has more disposable income and therefore drugs.  [/quote]

[b]Does most of McKinley end up at Yorktown?[/b] If so, maybe they are trying to keep the school together?[/quote]

IIRC, only 2 of the current McK planning units currently go to W-L.  Everyone else is currently zoned for Yorktown.[/quote]

I don't know where you're getting that from, but I don't think it's correct.  It also directly contradicts a previous presentation APS put out saying that 6 planning units zoned for McKinley and Swanson are zoned for W-L and 8 are zoned for Yorktown.  The planning unit directly south of us, whose kids we have played at Lacey Woods park with since our kid was in preschool, is zoned for W-L.

The hill I was talking about IS the Harrison Street hill, starting from below Washington Boulevard going up to Lee Highway.  It's particularly steep from around 16th street up to around the sledding hill around 18th or 19th.  Then you get to the grocery at Lee Harrison and you're still only about halfway to Yorktown, and it's more hill![/quote]

As I read the boundary maps, the following planning units are assigned to McKinley: 1401, 1402, 1403, 1404, 1405, 1406, 1407, 1408, 1409, 1410, 1411, 1501, 1502, 1608

Currently, 1407, 1408, 1409, 1410, 1411, and 1502 are assigned to W-L; the rest to Yorktown.

However, of the planning units assigned to W-L, only 1502 is north of Washington Blvd. The others are south of Washington. So I guess the argument is that moving 1502 to Yorktown keeps it with its neighborhood? I dunno.

(I don't live in 1502 and am agnostic about where it goes to high school.)[/quote]

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