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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ASFS will include a walk zone (even if it is a small one), and just bus some of the Rosslyn kids to Longbranch or the Clarendon folks to Taylor or Glebe.  Makes no sense for APS to keep bussing kids (including the ones from Lyon Village) to ASFS, and then bus all the kids around ASFS out of the neighborhood.  No need to do two bus trips when the Rosslyn, etc. kids can just stay on a bus for the same amount of time/maybe a couple minutes longer.  Much cheaper and more efficient from a transportation standpoint. [/quote]
Sorry but this makes no sense and this poster has no idea of the geography.
To get kids from Clarendon/Courthouse to glebe, you have to create an island or move a lot of kids from Ashlawn to glebe.  To get them to taylor, you again have to create an island.  You could move them to long branch, but as people above pointed out, long branch is a much smaller school and aps analysis even said that a school at the asfs site would help alleviate crowding at long branch.  That and the Clarendon asfs kids are the only ones who consistently walk right now!
To create the walk zone, you are moving kids out of taylor— which is UNDER capacity next year!  So you are moving kids from a school with no trailers to one with six.  That makes no sense.  
So they might make a walk zone but I don’t see them moving anyone to long branch, though they might try to move people to Taylor.  I can see them doing as little as possible in order to leave them free for a more permanent solution.[/quote]

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