Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 21:01     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Anonymous wrote:Would love to know which school OP is with. We are at an option school and I'm so over all the parents emailing complaining about "unsafe" hub stops.


Either ATS or Campbell based on the comment about hanging around while Glebe is still in session. They both start early. My money is on ATS.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 20:59     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:people here are so foul. i am not in favor of option schools but if there are unsafe bus stops it shouldn’t matter where kids go. APS has so many issues at this point let’s just add this to the list. please stop making jabs at families who entered a lottery and got in and put that time and energy to writing APS about stopping lottery schools. or any of the other issues we all have with APS.





What OP is describing isn't an unsafe bus stop. It is at an elementary school that many other children, OP's neighbors in fact, walk to every day. But that's not good enough for OP. OP wants to go to an option school that, by definition, needs to serve the whole county geography, and thinks they also deserve door to door bus service. Enough already.


OP is not complaining that the stop is unsafe. It's the route the kids have to walk to to get to the stop that is unsafe. If APS considers major roads in determining walk zones for neighborhood schools, they should be giving the same consideration to hub stops.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 20:55     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Send your kid to a neighborhood school or STFU


The school board should say they’re not providing transportation to option schools or make sure safe transportation is provided for all students. If half the kids at an option school have safe and convenient bus stops, and the other half don’t, that starts to feel like unequal access.


So? The whole option school system is unequal access.


+1

And how does one family have THREE kids in an option school?
Spanish speaking family in Immersion? Not that hard.

Sibling preferences in admissions policies. Such as triplets: one gets in, all three get in.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 20:25     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Would love to know which school OP is with. We are at an option school and I'm so over all the parents emailing complaining about "unsafe" hub stops.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 19:58     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Anonymous wrote:people here are so foul. i am not in favor of option schools but if there are unsafe bus stops it shouldn’t matter where kids go. APS has so many issues at this point let’s just add this to the list. please stop making jabs at families who entered a lottery and got in and put that time and energy to writing APS about stopping lottery schools. or any of the other issues we all have with APS.





What OP is describing isn't an unsafe bus stop. It is at an elementary school that many other children, OP's neighbors in fact, walk to every day. But that's not good enough for OP. OP wants to go to an option school that, by definition, needs to serve the whole county geography, and thinks they also deserve door to door bus service. Enough already.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 19:27     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Anonymous wrote:people here are so foul. i am not in favor of option schools but if there are unsafe bus stops it shouldn’t matter where kids go. APS has so many issues at this point let’s just add this to the list. please stop making jabs at families who entered a lottery and got in and put that time and energy to writing APS about stopping lottery schools. or any of the other issues we all have with APS.





There are very few places with unsafe bus stops.

Crossing a road with a stoplight and walk signals is not unsafe.

Crossing guards are for roads with unlighted crossings like Lorcom or Kirkwood.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 19:25     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Anonymous wrote:Kids deserve to have safe bus stops no matter what APS school they attend.


Your 5th grader will be crossing Lee Highway or similar without a crossing guard next year. So he can handle crossing Glebe and guide your 4th.

A parent should absolutely be walking a 1st grader to school. Not a 5th grader. Stop being lazy.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 19:18     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
people here are so foul. i am not in favor of option schools but if there are unsafe bus stops it shouldn’t matter where kids go. APS has so many issues at this point let’s just add this to the list. please stop making jabs at families who entered a lottery and got in and put that time and energy to writing APS about stopping lottery schools. or any of the other issues we all have with APS.



Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 19:11     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Actually, you don’t know about bus stops and where they are located until a couple weeks before school starts.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 18:16     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Arlington is gross. Wasn't always that way, but it's gross.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 17:59     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Drive or send your kid to the neighborhood school. I have zero sympathy.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 17:52     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Anonymous wrote:I suspect the OP is a stay at home mom and if I'm right, she's sent a lot of messages to the school board and transportation ppl. They are all very tone-def. I wish she'd stop. Makes our school community look like entitled a-h0les. and some of them are, to be sure. Bubble land where everybody agrees with you or, like me, too shy to tell her in person to stop.


yeah safe bus stops are such a luxury item
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 17:38     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Anonymous wrote:And isn’t there a light at Glebe? A light plus a crossing guard seems redundant.


Swanson used to have a light and a crossing guard, and that was for middle school. I'd be worried that cars won't see/stop for little kids.

I'm not sure why OP thinks an "18-minute walk" is reason to gripe, though
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 17:26     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Send your kid to a neighborhood school or STFU


The school board should say they’re not providing transportation to option schools or make sure safe transportation is provided for all students. If half the kids at an option school have safe and convenient bus stops, and the other half don’t, that starts to feel like unequal access.


So? The whole option school system is unequal access.


+1

And how does one family have THREE kids in an option school?
Spanish speaking family in Immersion? Not that hard.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 17:12     Subject: APS Hub Stops -
I suspect the OP is a stay at home mom and if I'm right, she's sent a lot of messages to the school board and transportation ppl. They are all very tone-def. I wish she'd stop. Makes our school community look like entitled a-h0les. and some of them are, to be sure. Bubble land where everybody agrees with you or, like me, too shy to tell her in person to stop.