And the ones that aren't? If you turn a school into a technical academy and still have students in bounds, what happens to kids who want to be on a college track? |
You clearly didn't read the entire post. Rezone those students to surrounding high schools, such as Hayfield, LB, SoCo and Edison. |
WSHS is at capacity, so they would not be involved in the rezoning. The one exception would be to eliminate the split feeders at Rolling Valley and Sangster, putting all of Sangster at LB and all of Rolling Valley at WS. This option makes the most sense and is the least disruptive. |
Those students are rezoned to Hayfield, Edison, Lake Braddock and South County. It comes to roughly 100 students or less per grade going to each school. Possibly much less than 100 per grade if many students decide to stay for the magnet school. |
I think you over estimate how many parents would choose a technical school, even if you call it a magnet |
I think quite a few would choose a magnet trade school. Look at the National trend for college and university attendance. It’s dropping - especially among young men. Graduates of a top notch trade school would be very much in demand by employers and would likely make good money after HS - likely more than the college graduates. |
look at the lack of demand for current academies in FCPS |
' West Springfield would absolutely be involved in the rezoning under this scenario, given its proximity to Lewis. It would simply have a domino effect requiring WS kids to be moved to Lake Braddock. It's funny how you think FCPS can eviscerate what's left of Lewis as a neighborhood school without it significantly impacting WS as well. Dream on. |
That’s largely because they’re scattered among different schools and require kids to bus from one school to another during the middle of the day, which is a huge pain. My DS considered attending an academy but quickly rejected the idea when he learned that it would be a logistical nightmare. If CTE programs should be consolidated into a magnet school format instead of shuttling kids from their base schools. |
The academies at base schools where your theory would assume they are popular aren't even popular. |
Isn't Edison about 2 miles from Lewis? Why would they put another trades/skills option HS so close to each other? |
Move the academies from Edison and Mount Vernon and consolidate them at Lewis. Make it a full-time program so that kids aren’t shuttled back and forth from their base schools. Move the kids from Lewis who don’t want to attend a magnet trade school to Edison, Mount Vernon, Hayfield, Annandale, or SoCo. |
The more "ideas" I see that don't involve West Springfield at all, yet would be disruptive to other schools, the more convinced I am that the starting point should be to redistrict West Springfield kids to Lewis. It's the combination of completely insulating West Springfield while imposing burdens and potential overcrowding on other schools that's so over-the-top. |
Agreed. Take all of the kids south of the FC Parkway as well as Daventry and send them to Lewis. Of course, most of those parents will then just go private, but at least you'll get kids out of WSHS. |
Rezone the Lewis Rolling Valley kids to Saratoga at the elementary level. |