FCPS HS Boundary

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

This was the topic of the work session yesterday and some data is on their presentation. For example, only 60% of schools offer multiple advanced computer science classes.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

There are still many IB math offerings at Mount Vernon and AP math offerings at Hayfield. The suggestion that "bad schools leave smart kids without options" is unfounded.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

There are still many IB math offerings at Mount Vernon and AP math offerings at Hayfield. The suggestion that "bad schools leave smart kids without options" is unfounded.

Do they have options? Is Analysis and Approaches HL 2 regularly offered at MVHS? Does Hayfield regularly offer multiple options for math after Calc BC? The better schools teach those classes every year. The bad schools list them, but then don't teach them

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

There are still many IB math offerings at Mount Vernon and AP math offerings at Hayfield. The suggestion that "bad schools leave smart kids without options" is unfounded.

Do they have options? Is Analysis and Approaches HL 2 regularly offered at MVHS? Does Hayfield regularly offer multiple options for math after Calc BC? The better schools teach those classes every year. The bad schools list them, but then don't teach them

And Lewis doesn't have a baseball team. If there are not enough kids to warrant a resource, then it's unfortunate but thats reality. Is your suggestion that the boundaries need to be adjusted so that there are enough other kids to fill these classes so that the 4-8 kids interested/qualified get the same opportunity? Thats pretty ridiculous if so.

It's easier just to pay for a part time resource or give the qualified students the option and transportation to a neighboring school.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

There are still many IB math offerings at Mount Vernon and AP math offerings at Hayfield. The suggestion that "bad schools leave smart kids without options" is unfounded.

Do they have options? Is Analysis and Approaches HL 2 regularly offered at MVHS? Does Hayfield regularly offer multiple options for math after Calc BC? The better schools teach those classes every year. The bad schools list them, but then don't teach them

And Lewis doesn't have a baseball team. If there are not enough kids to warrant a resource, then it's unfortunate but thats reality. Is your suggestion that the boundaries need to be adjusted so that there are enough other kids to fill these classes so that the 4-8 kids interested/qualified get the same opportunity? Thats pretty ridiculous if so.

It's easier just to pay for a part time resource or give the qualified students the option and transportation to a neighboring school.

No, I'm saying that people saying that the curriculum offerings are equal are wrong. A smart kid will not have the same quality of classes available at some FCPS high schools that they will have available at other high schools. For kids taking geometry or algebra 2 in 8th, they can run out of options at some schools. Schools serve the majority. A smart kid will be better off in a school with a large cohort of smart kids than a bad school

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

If a school is converted to vocational/technical (like Lewis should be), those students who want a more academic curriculum should be allowed to transfer to the nearest school that has capacity and transportation should be provided.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

There are still many IB math offerings at Mount Vernon and AP math offerings at Hayfield. The suggestion that "bad schools leave smart kids without options" is unfounded.

Do they have options? Is Analysis and Approaches HL 2 regularly offered at MVHS? Does Hayfield regularly offer multiple options for math after Calc BC? The better schools teach those classes every year. The bad schools list them, but then don't teach them

And Lewis doesn't have a baseball team. If there are not enough kids to warrant a resource, then it's unfortunate but thats reality. Is your suggestion that the boundaries need to be adjusted so that there are enough other kids to fill these classes so that the 4-8 kids interested/qualified get the same opportunity? Thats pretty ridiculous if so.

It's easier just to pay for a part time resource or give the qualified students the option and transportation to a neighboring school.

No, I'm saying that people saying that the curriculum offerings are equal are wrong. A smart kid will not have the same quality of classes available at some FCPS high schools that they will have available at other high schools. For kids taking geometry or algebra 2 in 8th, they can run out of options at some schools. Schools serve the majority. A smart kid will be better off in a school with a large cohort of smart kids than a bad school

Thats fair, but I imagine across the FCPS this issue numbers in the 10s.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

There are still many IB math offerings at Mount Vernon and AP math offerings at Hayfield. The suggestion that "bad schools leave smart kids without options" is unfounded.

Do they have options? Is Analysis and Approaches HL 2 regularly offered at MVHS? Does Hayfield regularly offer multiple options for math after Calc BC? The better schools teach those classes every year. The bad schools list them, but then don't teach them

And Lewis doesn't have a baseball team. If there are not enough kids to warrant a resource, then it's unfortunate but thats reality. Is your suggestion that the boundaries need to be adjusted so that there are enough other kids to fill these classes so that the 4-8 kids interested/qualified get the same opportunity? Thats pretty ridiculous if so.

It's easier just to pay for a part time resource or give the qualified students the option and transportation to a neighboring school.

No, I'm saying that people saying that the curriculum offerings are equal are wrong. A smart kid will not have the same quality of classes available at some FCPS high schools that they will have available at other high schools. For kids taking geometry or algebra 2 in 8th, they can run out of options at some schools. Schools serve the majority. A smart kid will be better off in a school with a large cohort of smart kids than a bad school

Thats fair, but I imagine across the FCPS this issue numbers in the 10s.

It's low because those families see the writing on the wall and leave. They are the ones using the escape valves like AP availability to transfer.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

There are still many IB math offerings at Mount Vernon and AP math offerings at Hayfield. The suggestion that "bad schools leave smart kids without options" is unfounded.

Do they have options? Is Analysis and Approaches HL 2 regularly offered at MVHS? Does Hayfield regularly offer multiple options for math after Calc BC? The better schools teach those classes every year. The bad schools list them, but then don't teach them

And Lewis doesn't have a baseball team. If there are not enough kids to warrant a resource, then it's unfortunate but thats reality. Is your suggestion that the boundaries need to be adjusted so that there are enough other kids to fill these classes so that the 4-8 kids interested/qualified get the same opportunity? Thats pretty ridiculous if so.

It's easier just to pay for a part time resource or give the qualified students the option and transportation to a neighboring school.

Lewis has a baseball team this year. It's just not good. On the other hand, its boys soccer team (12-0-1) is the best in the county this year.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

There are still many IB math offerings at Mount Vernon and AP math offerings at Hayfield. The suggestion that "bad schools leave smart kids without options" is unfounded.

Do they have options? Is Analysis and Approaches HL 2 regularly offered at MVHS? Does Hayfield regularly offer multiple options for math after Calc BC? The better schools teach those classes every year. The bad schools list them, but then don't teach them

And Lewis doesn't have a baseball team. If there are not enough kids to warrant a resource, then it's unfortunate but thats reality. Is your suggestion that the boundaries need to be adjusted so that there are enough other kids to fill these classes so that the 4-8 kids interested/qualified get the same opportunity? Thats pretty ridiculous if so.

It's easier just to pay for a part time resource or give the qualified students the option and transportation to a neighboring school.

Lewis has a baseball team this year. It's just not good. On the other hand, its boys soccer team (12-0-1) is the best in the county this year.

Sports should not be a consideration at all.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

There are still many IB math offerings at Mount Vernon and AP math offerings at Hayfield. The suggestion that "bad schools leave smart kids without options" is unfounded.

Do they have options? Is Analysis and Approaches HL 2 regularly offered at MVHS? Does Hayfield regularly offer multiple options for math after Calc BC? The better schools teach those classes every year. The bad schools list them, but then don't teach them

And Lewis doesn't have a baseball team. If there are not enough kids to warrant a resource, then it's unfortunate but thats reality. Is your suggestion that the boundaries need to be adjusted so that there are enough other kids to fill these classes so that the 4-8 kids interested/qualified get the same opportunity? Thats pretty ridiculous if so.

It's easier just to pay for a part time resource or give the qualified students the option and transportation to a neighboring school.

Lewis has a baseball team this year. It's just not good. On the other hand, its boys soccer team (12-0-1) is the best in the county this year.

Sports should not be a consideration at all.

Disagree.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the HS have AP or IB. I would guess that all of the schools have similar AP offerings, like US History, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Calc BC, and the English ones. But some schools might have 1 or 2 sections while others have 4 or 5 sessions. And some schools might offer more of the elective APs, ok so they are all elective but not the core subjects, while others do not because they don’t have enough kids.

I am not a fan of the Academies. The classes are hard to attend if you are not a student at the base school. Why not have a vo-tech school where kids who want to learn a trade can attend. They take all their core classes and the classes for certification in the trade they are interested in.

Another way to put that is, some schools are good schools where smart kids can take a wide range of APs that challenge them. Other schools are bad schools that are forced to focus on remediation and leave smart kids with out options

What is the evidence that the smart kids at any FCPS high school - and there are smart kids at every school - don't have access to challenging AP or IB courses? It's actually the proposal (by posters here, not FCPS) to convert some of the schools with more poverty to primarily vocational/technical schools that would leave kids with academic aspirations with fewer options.

Compare the IB math offerings at MVHS to Marshall or South Lakes. Compare the AP offerings at Hayfield to Chantilly

There are still many IB math offerings at Mount Vernon and AP math offerings at Hayfield. The suggestion that "bad schools leave smart kids without options" is unfounded.

Do they have options? Is Analysis and Approaches HL 2 regularly offered at MVHS? Does Hayfield regularly offer multiple options for math after Calc BC? The better schools teach those classes every year. The bad schools list them, but then don't teach them

And Lewis doesn't have a baseball team. If there are not enough kids to warrant a resource, then it's unfortunate but thats reality. Is your suggestion that the boundaries need to be adjusted so that there are enough other kids to fill these classes so that the 4-8 kids interested/qualified get the same opportunity? Thats pretty ridiculous if so.

It's easier just to pay for a part time resource or give the qualified students the option and transportation to a neighboring school.

Lewis has a baseball team this year. It's just not good. On the other hand, its boys soccer team (12-0-1) is the best in the county this year.

Sports should not be a consideration at all.

Vastly different extra curricular opportunities, including sports, are one aspect of disfavored schools