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Parents urge board to reconsider middle‑school boundary changes, citing social disruption and transportation
Summary
Multiple parents during public comment urged the Lakeville Area Schools board to reconsider proposed zone changes that would send neighborhood cohorts to different middle and high schools, saying repeated transitions will harm students’ social ties and complicate transportation.
Parents from several neighborhoods asked the Lakeville Area Schools board on March 25 to reconsider proposed boundary changes that would shift students into different middle- and high‑school pathways.
Several speakers described specific neighborhoods that would move to Maguire Middle School under the proposed model and said the change would separate children from established classmates at two pivotal transitions — elementary to middle school and middle to high school. Justin (a parent from the Avonlea neighborhood) said his child would “be going to middle school with very few, if any, of…
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