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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more I look at this the more I like moving 2315, 4815, 4818, 4829, 4899 to Yorktown, and 1202, 4604, 4606, 4612, 4695 to Wakefield.  That avoids moving planning districts with high farms rates to Wakefield and it does move some to Yorktown.  It doesn't take anyone out of a walk zone.  2315 is currently Swanson, tons of Swanson already goes to Yorktown. The rest are Jefferson.  Similarly the Wakefield moves are Kenmore and Jefferson.[/quote]

I did this as well.  It makes sense but I'm sure there would be push back from the Lyon Park community.  Wakefield is not good for property values.  [/quote]

I'm doing the same moves suggested above- connecting the island to Yorktown and moving Ashton Heights and Lyon village to Wakefield. [b]Their property values won't budge. [/b]Especially after a year to two, because it would change the demographics at Wakefield, we'd have two schools that look like WL. [/quote]

[b]The pushback is not about property values but about community cohesion[/b].[/quote]

"Community cohesion" at the high school level is a non-issue.  By that time virtually all students  have friends all over the county from previous schools they have attended, sports teams and other non-APS extracurricular activities they have participated in and just the plain fact that the students are much more independent.  I have had three attend W-L and their friends are all over the county and beyond.

In my planning unit and neighborhood, there is little community cohesion based on schools even though everyone in the neighborhood is zoned for the same middle and high schools.  We are zoned for 2 different ES and by the time you add in private and APS choice ES schools, everyone is all over the place.  Nevertheless we have a strong community - just based on other things.[/quote]

+1, another parent of W-L students here. The concerns about keeping neighborhoods together for high school are completely overblown. Many of the people wringing their hands about this would send their kids to H-B in a hot minute, where their kids would be apart from their neighbors and elementary & middle school friends, but would make new friends and form a new community. Just as they will if they end up at one of the other Arlington high schools.[/quote]

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