Anonymous wrote:is carling spring in play for moving to wakefield?

Go back and reread. All of the west Pike could be moved to Wakefield. It would make the most sense geographically and push Wakefield past 60% poverty.

is carling spring in play for moving to wakefield?

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids really want to walk 1.5 miles to school everyday? I'd bike but not walk.

We are in a walk zone labeled as 1.5 miles.

Our house is 0.95 miles door-to-door from WL and YES all the kids in my neighborhood walk to and from there or ride bikes.

I pass my 3 neighbor HS WL boys on my afternoon run.

My own kids bike up to WL field all the time and they are 11. By 14, yes, they would be doing that on their own.

Hell, some of the MS neighbor's have walked home from Swanson.

We aren't all pansies.

Yep. Buying 1 mile from a HS should guarantee admittance to that HS and not one much farther away that requires bussing.

I get people want to make evertone else pay because they are in a HS district not of their choosing, mind you. We looked over there and I could have had a new home twice the square footage for the same price, but knew I was staying for HS so bought the smaller home in the better school district. This is a HUGE area. Nobody is forcing them to live in S.Arlington Wakefield zone, btw. Don't give me that BS there is no choice or alternative. Many families in Mt Pleasant of similar backgrounds attend great charter schools. They have the ability to move, not harass everyone that is zoned elsewhere.

And there it is. You jerks show your ass eventually. Its always about the house. God forbid someone might have a nicer house than you. Better make sure they pay. Great plan lady. More and more people cram into the walk zones, then you whine and cry about trailers. The stupidity astounds.

You make no sense, AHAT. It was spelled out that it was not about the house. Simple reading comprehension.

It was walkability. Walkability to a good school.

Uh huh... that's the same argument the segregations made. Keep up the good work.

You really are dumb. Again, sending my white rich kids to YHS is segregation. Keeping them at WL where we are currently zoned is not.

Try to keep up. Wakefield is the farthest HD from our house and not a remote possibility.

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids really want to walk 1.5 miles to school everyday? I'd bike but not walk.

We are in a walk zone labeled as 1.5 miles.

Our house is 0.95 miles door-to-door from WL and YES all the kids in my neighborhood walk to and from there or ride bikes.

I pass my 3 neighbor HS WL boys on my afternoon run.

My own kids bike up to WL field all the time and they are 11. By 14, yes, they would be doing that on their own.

Hell, some of the MS neighbor's have walked home from Swanson.

We aren't all pansies.

Yep. Buying 1 mile from a HS should guarantee admittance to that HS and not one much farther away that requires bussing.

I get people want to make evertone else pay because they are in a HS district not of their choosing, mind you. We looked over there and I could have had a new home twice the square footage for the same price, but knew I was staying for HS so bought the smaller home in the better school district. This is a HUGE area. Nobody is forcing them to live in S.Arlington Wakefield zone, btw. Don't give me that BS there is no choice or alternative. Many families in Mt Pleasant of similar backgrounds attend great charter schools. They have the ability to move, not harass everyone that is zoned elsewhere.

And there it is. You jerks show your ass eventually. Its always about the house. God forbid someone might have a nicer house than you. Better make sure they pay. Great plan lady. More and more people cram into the walk zones, then you whine and cry about trailers. The stupidity astounds.

You make no sense, AHAT. It was spelled out that it was not about the house. Simple reading comprehension.

It was walkability. Walkability to a good school.

Uh huh... that's the same argument the segregations made. Keep up the good work.

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids really want to walk 1.5 miles to school everyday? I'd bike but not walk.

We are in a walk zone labeled as 1.5 miles.

Our house is 0.95 miles door-to-door from WL and YES all the kids in my neighborhood walk to and from there or ride bikes.

I pass my 3 neighbor HS WL boys on my afternoon run.

My own kids bike up to WL field all the time and they are 11. By 14, yes, they would be doing that on their own.

Hell, some of the MS neighbor's have walked home from Swanson.

We aren't all pansies.

Yep. Buying 1 mile from a HS should guarantee admittance to that HS and not one much farther away that requires bussing.

I get people want to make evertone else pay because they are in a HS district not of their choosing, mind you. We looked over there and I could have had a new home twice the square footage for the same price, but knew I was staying for HS so bought the smaller home in the better school district. This is a HUGE area. Nobody is forcing them to live in S.Arlington Wakefield zone, btw. Don't give me that BS there is no choice or alternative. Many families in Mt Pleasant of similar backgrounds attend great charter schools. They have the ability to move, not harass everyone that is zoned elsewhere.

What is also annoying is the N. Arlington mom who goes to the last SB meeting to bemoan the fact that her HS aged daughter doesn't have enough diversity in their lily white school. WTF? Seriously. Why do you want everyone else to be bussed in? You can always request a transfer to Wakefield. Why should tons of people be inconvenienced so you can feel less guilty about your choice.

Screwing the pooch. That's what the Board is doing.

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids really want to walk 1.5 miles to school everyday? I'd bike but not walk.

We are in a walk zone labeled as 1.5 miles.

Our house is 0.95 miles door-to-door from WL and YES all the kids in my neighborhood walk to and from there or ride bikes.

I pass my 3 neighbor HS WL boys on my afternoon run.

My own kids bike up to WL field all the time and they are 11. By 14, yes, they would be doing that on their own.

Hell, some of the MS neighbor's have walked home from Swanson.

We aren't all pansies.

Yep. Buying 1 mile from a HS should guarantee admittance to that HS and not one much farther away that requires bussing.

I get people want to make evertone else pay because they are in a HS district not of their choosing, mind you. We looked over there and I could have had a new home twice the square footage for the same price, but knew I was staying for HS so bought the smaller home in the better school district. This is a HUGE area. Nobody is forcing them to live in S.Arlington Wakefield zone, btw. Don't give me that BS there is no choice or alternative. Many families in Mt Pleasant of similar backgrounds attend great charter schools. They have the ability to move, not harass everyone that is zoned elsewhere.

And there it is. You jerks show your ass eventually. Its always about the house. God forbid someone might have a nicer house than you. Better make sure they pay. Great plan lady. More and more people cram into the walk zones, then you whine and cry about trailers. The stupidity astounds.

You make no sense, AHAT. It was spelled out that it was not about the house. Simple reading comprehension.

It was walkability. Walkability to a good school.

Definitely could have had a bigger house in YHS or Wakefield--away from Metro and Urban Center.

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Anonymous wrote:Moving Arlington Forest PUs is not really "keeping a neighborhood together." Arlington Forest is separated by route 50. It might as well be two separate neighborhoods. My kid attends WL from one of the Arlington Forest PUs under consideration for a rezone to Wakefield. He takes a bus to WL but can walk to/from WL, and does, several times a week. No way would he be able to walk to/from Wakefield. Arlington county needs to increase diversity in the south Arlington neighborhoods in order to achieve it in the schools, not bus it in.

I'm not part of the contingent that advocates leaving the western planning units closest to wakefield out of wakefield, but it seems like there's been momentum at least on this board to move one of the arlington forest PUs to wakefield.

It just makes sense. You are not in the actual walk zone for W-L. Half your neighborhood is already zoned Wakefield. Your kids already go to MS at Kenmore, across the dreaded 50. How do they get there? We all go to the same pool, play on the same sports teams, etc. And moving you wouldn't make Wakefiled over 50% FARM's. So Arlington Forest meets all criteria except for proximity, but you're not walk zone so I can live with it.

If you move the units at the west Pike, you also meet 5 criteria, all but Demographics. And the demographics here well, those few planning units have 374 economically disadvantaged students. This is an area of concentrated poverty, as defined by HUD. The FARMs rate at Wakefield would go from the current 46% to 65%. It would be irresponsible for the county to deliberately INCREASE the economic disparity between the three high schools while they are striving to eliminate the achievement gap. There is a lot of research on best practices, and this would run counter to all recommendations. Not to mention, it would make us look so bad, like Loudoun: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/school-board-backs-away-from-rezoning-proposal-tagged-by-critics-as-segregation/2016/03/30/ce21bebe-f68c-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html




If it's a tie breaker, I am not going to chose the option that destabilizes one of our three high schools. I would hope that our school board has the same sense and approaches this from a logical, rational standpoint.

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids really want to walk 1.5 miles to school everyday? I'd bike but not walk.

We are in a walk zone labeled as 1.5 miles.

Our house is 0.95 miles door-to-door from WL and YES all the kids in my neighborhood walk to and from there or ride bikes.

I pass my 3 neighbor HS WL boys on my afternoon run.

My own kids bike up to WL field all the time and they are 11. By 14, yes, they would be doing that on their own.

Hell, some of the MS neighbor's have walked home from Swanson.

We aren't all pansies.

Yep. Buying 1 mile from a HS should guarantee admittance to that HS and not one much farther away that requires bussing.

I get people want to make evertone else pay because they are in a HS district not of their choosing, mind you. We looked over there and I could have had a new home twice the square footage for the same price, but knew I was staying for HS so bought the smaller home in the better school district. This is a HUGE area. Nobody is forcing them to live in S.Arlington Wakefield zone, btw. Don't give me that BS there is no choice or alternative. Many families in Mt Pleasant of similar backgrounds attend great charter schools. They have the ability to move, not harass everyone that is zoned elsewhere.

And there it is. You jerks show your ass eventually. Its always about the house. God forbid someone might have a nicer house than you. Better make sure they pay. Great plan lady. More and more people cram into the walk zones, then you whine and cry about trailers. The stupidity astounds.

You make no sense, AHAT. It was spelled out that it was not about the house. Simple reading comprehension.

It was walkability. Walkability to a good school.

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids really want to walk 1.5 miles to school everyday? I'd bike but not walk.

We are in a walk zone labeled as 1.5 miles.

Our house is 0.95 miles door-to-door from WL and YES all the kids in my neighborhood walk to and from there or ride bikes.

I pass my 3 neighbor HS WL boys on my afternoon run.

My own kids bike up to WL field all the time and they are 11. By 14, yes, they would be doing that on their own.

Hell, some of the MS neighbor's have walked home from Swanson.

We aren't all pansies.

Yep. Buying 1 mile from a HS should guarantee admittance to that HS and not one much farther away that requires bussing.

I get people want to make evertone else pay because they are in a HS district not of their choosing, mind you. We looked over there and I could have had a new home twice the square footage for the same price, but knew I was staying for HS so bought the smaller home in the better school district. This is a HUGE area. Nobody is forcing them to live in S.Arlington Wakefield zone, btw. Don't give me that BS there is no choice or alternative. Many families in Mt Pleasant of similar backgrounds attend great charter schools. They have the ability to move, not harass everyone that is zoned elsewhere.

And there it is. You jerks show your ass eventually. Its always about the house. God forbid someone might have a nicer house than you. Better make sure they pay. Great plan lady. More and more people cram into the walk zones, then you whine and cry about trailers. The stupidity astounds.

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Anonymous wrote:Chadwick lies

All the AC govt/Board are a bunch of lazy, liars.

If he moves the walkers, he will be burned on a stake...

Anonymous wrote:Chadwick lies

All the AC govt/Board are a bunch of lazy, liars.

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids really want to walk 1.5 miles to school everyday? I'd bike but not walk.

We are in a walk zone labeled as 1.5 miles.

Our house is 0.95 miles door-to-door from WL and YES all the kids in my neighborhood walk to and from there or ride bikes.

I pass my 3 neighbor HS WL boys on my afternoon run.

My own kids bike up to WL field all the time and they are 11. By 14, yes, they would be doing that on their own.

Hell, some of the MS neighbor's have walked home from Swanson.

We aren't all pansies.

Yep. Buying 1 mile from a HS should guarantee admittance to that HS and not one much farther away that requires bussing.

I get people want to make evertone else pay because they are in a HS district not of their choosing, mind you. We looked over there and I could have had a new home twice the square footage for the same price, but knew I was staying for HS so bought the smaller home in the better school district. This is a HUGE area. Nobody is forcing them to live in S.Arlington Wakefield zone, btw. Don't give me that BS there is no choice or alternative. Many families in Mt Pleasant of similar backgrounds attend great charter schools. They have the ability to move, not harass everyone that is zoned elsewhere.

Somebody is trying to make the ASF-Swanson-YHS trifecta that currently does not exist.

Homes in that potential planning unit are already the priciest PER SQ foot then anywhere else in the County. It's a shame they are splitting up a neighborhood and making neighbors ride a bus 40 min each way when they've could walk to subsidize their dreams. Some have definitely bought into the lemming-view that the whiter YHS is better for their dear children even if it means driving them personally, handing over the keys to their Mercedes or the dreaded bus (somebody no high schooler wants to ever have to ride$.

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids really want to walk 1.5 miles to school everyday? I'd bike but not walk.

We are in a walk zone labeled as 1.5 miles.

Our house is 0.95 miles door-to-door from WL and YES all the kids in my neighborhood walk to and from there or ride bikes.

I pass my 3 neighbor HS WL boys on my afternoon run.

My own kids bike up to WL field all the time and they are 11. By 14, yes, they would be doing that on their own.

Hell, some of the MS neighbor's have walked home from Swanson.

We aren't all pansies.

Bye, homes farther down the street from us are still zoned for WL and not in the potential move to YHS.