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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. I agree. Either you can bear the inconvenience of an long drive to school events or to extended day as the price you play for  the choice program that you value, or you can put your kid in his or her neighborhood school.  Y[b]ou are not entitled to have a countywide choice program located near your home[/b]. Get over yourself. [/quote]

Just like nobody is entitled to have a neighborhood school near their home.  Don't people understand that there are always going to be students who need to take a bus or drive - with the rare near-exception of Randolph?  Doesn't anyone get that everyone can't have the school of their choice within walking distance?  That it's not possible to have all the option schools in the backyards of everyone attending and that kids are going to need to take a car or bus to a neighborhood school?[/quote]
Yes, nobody is entitled to be able to walk to school.  But, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t consider what’s good for the entire system and evaluate whether some option school sites would be more efficient/cost effective to become a neighborhood school just because we are scared of change.  That and we should hold people accountable for saying they “walk”.  Take away their buses and see if they still want to be zoned at that particular school.
We should also think about long term planning for the county in these discussions.  The [b]county pushes a car free diet and actively reduces parking, but then the school board makes all the walkable schools in that area full option.  That makes no sense.[/b]  The county clusters all of the affordable housing in one part of the county, and then the school board bemoans that they can’t create diverse schools.  Again no sense.[/quote]

That's because there are two competing "logics" and priorities:  you want choice schools to be accessible by the whole County - so you need to locate them more centrally.  That happens to also be where the most efficient public transit is.  Unless you can build a slew of schools along that highly-populated, transit-heavy corridor, you can't offer enough option and neighborhood schools in those areas.[/quote]

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