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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lyon Village residents should hold their fire and save their energy. Wait til the middle school/high school boundary discussions, when your special dispensation to bus your children miles away to Williamsburg/Yorktown is on the table.  Prepare for some boundary changes.  [/quote]

Lyon Village is Swanson/W-L. I would be perfectly happy if my kids got moved to TJ Middle. [b]Not so happy about getting moved to Wakefield, because W-L is walkable[/b].

And I am sympathetic to parents who would rather their kids walked to ASFS than took the bus to Taylor, but the complaints of the signatories to the petition that ASFS provides a better education than Taylor or that their kids are taking bus rides of 45-60 minutes to get home are making me sneer. [/quote]

In an admittedly convoluted scenario I could see Lyon Village being bused to Yorktown, because Courthouse and Rosslyn students are already bused there. But Yorktown is also overcrowded, and W-L is a five minute walk away from parts of the neighborhood. Wakefield is at the other end of the county so Lyon Village would never be bused there. That would make no logical sense. [/quote]

I'd prefer to stay at W-L. My 7 year old already rides his bike there for swim lessons.
I'd prefer to stay walkable for HS.  I think the educations kids would receive would be equivalent at either HS.[/quote]

None of us can predict the future, but Lyon Village is a very short walk to W-L, and APS is ostensibly trying to cut down on busing. Moving LV to any other high school would likely be very controversial. On google maps LV is two blocks from W-L.

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