Two things I’ll note about transportation. One is that for the last three years, in my neighborhood (which used to be in the Pioneer district and is now in the Skyline district) AAPS had to provide two sets of buses–one to Skyline for Skyline students and one to Pioneer for students who hadn’t yet graduated. That was also true in many “formerly Huron/now Skyline” parts of the district. Next year will be the first year that is unnecessary. Second, when it comes to my high school student walking to school or to “common stops” early in the morning, I don’t worry about the cold but I do worry that it’s dark out and some of those roads are dark and without sidewalks. It will only take one hit-and-run accident to change the cost-benefit analysis of this.

On another note–I’m really not sure why Liz Margolis or Deb Mexicotte would say that other local districts have closed Schools of Choice for the year. For the most part, that is not true. Ypsilanti, Whitmore Lake, Milan, Saline, Whitmore Lake and South Lyon schools (all contiguous to our district) are all either still open to schools of choice (Saline only through the end of this week) or will be having a second period of open enrollment later this summer.

I think you should have said that it is supposed to mark the RCSDC, because the RCSDC is actually about a mile west of that dot. That dot marks a farm.

I hope the other dots are more accurate.