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Name: Carly Vilona on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Taylor ParentFlag
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Name: Alise Troester on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Taylor ParentFlag
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Name: Samantha D'Alessio on Feb 21, 2013Comments: I 100% agree with the statements above. I cannot understand why this problem is not being addressed now. Instead the school board and APS continue to skew the boundaries severely impacting the neighborhood boundaries for Taylor. Because the planning commission has refused to address this problem, my unit was almost sent to Jamestown over 2 miles away from my 0.25 walk to Taylor. This is a huge problem that MUST be addressed now and reestablish boundaries that make sense. As it stands now we are going to lose to units to Jamestown that absolutely belong to the Taylor neighborhood.Flag
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Name: Tony D'Alessio on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Michelle Robbins on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Jason Rigoli on Feb 21, 2013Comments: By keeping the choice schools and Lyon Village out of the analysis and ultimate decision it is clear the school board seeks to support a model where a "higher class" of tax payers get preferential treatment in the county. This is certainly not what I expect from my elected officials.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Betsy Saffell on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Callan Saffell on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Mark P. Hosking on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Alexandra Voigt on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Janna Fountaine on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Taylor parent residing .68 mi to Taylor and facing a re-location.Flag
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Name: Ann Holley on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Adrienne Honigstock on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Children who are currently walkers to their neighborhood schools should not be made to bus to a new school in order to accomodate over crowding. Walkability and neighborhood continuity should be maintained.Flag
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Name: Yvonne Matsko on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Parent of 2 future Glebe childrenFlag
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Name: Julie Cameron on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Darrin Holley on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Wholeheartedly agree with the above. We have families in the Taylor district that live adjacent to the Taylor property who are likely being redistricted to Jamestown because the Taylor boundary extends to Rosslyn/Clarendon and there is no other alternative for those students. Thus the only way to relieve Taylor is moving students who are walking distance to the north/west to Jamestown.Flag
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Name: Russ Williams on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Would like to see this process inclusive of all elementary schools in County, not a subset.Flag
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Name: Karen Harned on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Christine Burgeson on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Concerned Taylor parent. APS should be commended for the transparency of this difficult effort, but I believe strongly that all of that good work has been undercut by the misguided decision not to consider ALL of the schools in our Northern Arlington team as part of this process.Flag
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Name: Dan Doonan on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Taylor Parent (part of Bellevue Forest): I was somewhat resigned to our fate, being sacrificed to save Taylor, until I looked at the boundary maps for the middle and high schools. There are literally islands cut out from the lower-middle part of the county, where the kids are shipped to the very northern part of the county to go to middle and high school. This is true, despite the claimed necessity to have contiguous borders for elementary schools. Now, I'm starting to believe that we were sacrificed because there are some VIP's in other neighborhoods. This is disturbing, and has shaken my confidence in the decision-making process altogether. Does this explain why many ideas/options were taken off the table so early in the process (before the community was engaged)? I fear it might.Flag
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Name: Enjoli Goyal on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Cathy Hinger on Feb 21, 2013Comments: We are a Glebe family and hope to stay that way as we are only .8 miles from the school and our child is very well integrated in the Glebe system. Please consider these points. We had to fight to get my child a bus to Glebe this year because we are .8 miles from the school and the school board's position was the board is encouraging walking and less traffic; sending our kids 2 + miles to a far away school when we have Glebe, ASF, Key and even Taylor in close proximity is counterproductive; we should fix all boundary lines and heed the suggestions above - thank youFlag
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Name: Elizabeth Hirko on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: David Hirko on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Linda Blauhut on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Concerned Glebe parentFlag
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Name: Lesley Malus Reed on Feb 21, 2013Comments: We have been #2 at Science Focus for the past 2 years without any movement at all. I do think this school should be considered in the discussions. I also think that a neighborhood school for the ever growing Roslyn, Clarendon Community is a must. How many More condos are planned?Flag
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Name: Douglas Adams on Feb 21, 2013Comments: APS should consider moving the choice schools -- either ASF or Key - to the new school being built, and open up Key and ASF as neighborhood schools.Flag
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Name: Maria Votsch on Feb 21, 2013Comments: My family is currently in the Taylor district but we also live in fairly close proximity to ASF and Key. I'm concerned that decisions may be made now as part of the current boundary discussions that would then need to be revisited a few years later if the decision is made to turn the current ASF or Key facility into a neighborhood school. To me it makes more sense to consider the boundaries for both neighborhood and choice schools holistically, as part of the same decision-making process, based on population changes and needs that have been identified in all impacted neighborhoods.Flag
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Name: Pilar Dickens on Feb 21, 2013Comments: TaylorFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Ori Hoffer on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Allison Horton on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Taylor parentFlag
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Name: Jim South on Feb 21, 2013Comments: This process has been flawed and unnecessarily rushed from the start. Rather than put all options on the table, many were excluded (moving ATS, Reed, ASF, Key-- even though these schools fall within the impacted neighborhoods). When pressed for an explanation, there was none-- this is not transparent. This is not what we were told to expect from this process. Suggesting that a planning unit be sent to a school 3 miles away(as was done at the last meeting 1510/1513 to Ashlawn-Option B), when there are 10-15 elementary school facilities located closer to that planning unit reinforces the need to make this process more comprehensive. This piecemeal solution that is the basis of the current redistricting is simply untenable. There is a reason that the last redistricting effort largely failed, and it is frustrating to see APS apparently has not learned its lessons from 2008.Flag
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Name: Megan Fitzsimmons on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Parent of a Kindergardener at Taylor.Flag
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Name: Colleen Yushchak on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Kristin Woody on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Additionally, the planning units directly north of Taylor-in some cases the next street over are being moved, while the Taylor school boundaries stretch 2miles to the south. This is very disruptive to the neighborhood, such as the Donaldson Run Recreation Association which includes the neighborhood pool. There is a strong sense of community here that will be threatened when these planning units leave Taylor. I think we should preserve the neighborhoods adjacent to Taylor and limit instead the school boundary to the south.Flag
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Name: Kirsten Holtz on Feb 21, 2013Comments: I attend ASFS and walk to ASFS and it is not my neighborhood school. I believe it should be.Flag
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Name: Casey Andrysiak on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Taylor Elementary parent, within .3 mile of Taylor, now being adversely impacted - potential of being bused to a school 2+ miles away - due to issues 1-5 above.Flag
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Name: Whitney Montgomery on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Taylor ElementaryFlag
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Name: Jennifer Williams on Feb 21, 2013Comments: IFlag
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Name: Amy Otteni on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Sapna Delacourt on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Add ASFS to the boundary revision process this year. Students from Glebe should be moved to schools closest to them, not to AshlawnFlag
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Name: Rachel Baker on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Matthew Freedus on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Glebe parent.Flag
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Name: Susan Cuningham on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Taylor kindergarten parentFlag
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Name: Cynthia Scarcella on Feb 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Ellen Moy And Ben Session on Feb 21, 2013Comments: It takes less than 10 minutes for us to walk to Glebe, and the next walking-distance school to us is Science Focus, which we cannot even apply. It makes no sense for us to bus to a school. Please explain to us why community centers (some are former elementary school) are not considered.Flag
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Name: LAURA WALTON CROUCH on Feb 21, 2013Comments: Glebe - planning unit 1513Flag
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Name: Tara S Blankinship on Feb 21, 2013Comments: I live in PU 1513 - across 66 from PU 1510- I would walk to Glebe, how can the county justify putting my kids on a bus for that long, when we (a family who does not drive much for the environment) can walk!Flag