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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Claiming drive time and distance is futile.

And no students of HV are "legally" considered walkers. Stop saying that.

It’s also dumb because it assumes the bus picked your kid up at your front door and delivers them straight to the school. It doesn’t factor in the other stops the bus makes along the way and how those stops factor in to the total ride time.

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Anonymous wrote:If you would like to contact Sandy Evans to comment about HVES/WSHS students being moved to Lewis HS, https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fcps.edu%2Fstaff%2Fsandy-anderson%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0Gr3cAoZnJjBsEbcH17W9nrzCATjQz1jkd4738QQIv6J2czoJJsOakSrc_aem_5LAlboGhtWlnyzOk6TmejA&h=AT1upZxnEvMyjYUIbWPZqa_42yfaQYrNgXcsxeysrCfF7TeaC62598bH5-c7HFm_rHGi9RQ68PeO2FS6iXXZVByTgOMhstF3NfvpH3Cf3fgDO8y6zDaNrXhceGozfM8u5g&__tn__=R]-R&c[0]=AT0eMXYcxKKCnoAV3K2xTOke30P9EWcS-jOEOa-esEHravjz14pJp56bkaFOfaJbTP7G0gJw01i3_Ul4-znX7FYoSxsZZcoEH3vWQRERu79Oc6ycXXNOtifzJOiEx4WR8qfQ61HtixWJE_rz4XkHdNz9VqTgcSpA7rwDujkDOylf2yoHz9qqwl5zQxis9E8

Lewis is a failed HS and a lot of time, money, and resources has been poured into Lewis over the past 5 years, with no improvement. Now they want to move high SES, non-FARMS students to come in to help fix the school? Lewis is an FCPS problem, expecting good students from stable families to come in save the school is an interesting Hail Mary by Dr Reid. No way that people who paid almost a million dollars for a 50 y.o. split level in West Springfield are going to go for that nonsense.

No dog in this fight, but that attitude needs to go. It's absolutely not FCPS's nor the taxpayer's responsibility to remove all risk from overbidding for real estate. Do you always support government intervention, or only when the government will save your bottom line?

No one overbid for a house in West Springfield, we bought in a stable district with great schools. Lewis has been mismanaged by years, including appointing a Principal and nominating him as Principal of the Year, for no accomplishment. Why was that? Enormous amounts of money, resources, staff, and trial programs have been poured into Lewis, with no results. Nearby Hayfield HS and Edison HS have a number of out of state and out of district students, no one is focused on that issue either. There are 4 other HS's closer to West Springfield, but somehow bussing West Springfield students through the Mixing Bowl during morning and evening rush hours and requiring parents and student drivers to move through that same traffic nightmare is going to help solve what issue? The traffic and bussing issue should have made this a nonstarter from the get go. WS students will now spend 1+hour commuting each way for Dr Reid's equity experiment.

No dog in the fight? Are you a taxpayer? Are you concerned about FCPS waste and abuse? Are you a county resident and tax payer? Which school district do you live in?

Actually I do not support government intervention. At all. The government is seldom concerned about the bottom line or doing what is best for the majority of citizens. The school district is spending millions to build the Dunn Loring ES, where it is not needed; spent millions to expand WestPo, when it was not needed.

Can you substantiate that first bold claim? ESL and high FARMS heavy schools typically do get more funding, but 'enormous' amounts? And no results? The results are different because many of the students are starting at a much different place.

Second bold statement - the only high school closer to West Springfield than Lewis is Lake Braddock. The drive to Lewis is either straight down Old Keene Mill / Franconia to Frontier or you can use the elevated section of Franconia to bypass the mall area and then go in through the Springfield Estates neighborhood. Or other students would go straight down the parkway to Frontier. This is not a terrible commute. But you know that.

Third bold statement - just a bit of exaggeration in that commute timeline...

+1

People opposed to the change need to stop talking about the commute.

People who have no idea what they are talking about need to quit claiming that crossing the mixing bowl is no big deal.

At the minimum, on low traffic days, it more than doubles the commute to school.

From Hunt Valley ES to West Springfield this morning (given it is a Sunday, but you did say low traffic days) - 7 minutes
From Hunt Valley ES to Lewis - 11 minutes

From Saratoga ES to Lewis - 12 minutes

If they send Saratoga to Lewis then they can definitely send Hunt Valley.

That drive to Lewis is not accurate, unless tlyou are going 80 MPH down the parkway and 50 MPH down Sydenstriker.

Say you are unfamiliar with the area without saying you are unfamiliar with the area.

Oh yes it is.

Nah.

It is not at all accurate, unless you are going as the crow flies.

+1 Please make this drive for yourself at some point during the school year and the school day. It’s not easy or straightforward. Especially if a kid is leaving school late due to after school activities and you start running into more rush hour traffic.

[Anonymous]

Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

They will. I think sandy has gotten hundreds of emails and there are parent FB groups to band together.

This is going to get very messy and very ugly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

Um, 2019 called. This if the EXACT playbook that they had back then, except that they can’t call it equity now. That’s why you get the democrats grasping at weird straws to justify the equity play (eg theoretical transportation cost savings).

It’s very transparent, and if you can’t see that perhaps you should be doing your homework.

DP btw.

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

Um, 2019 called. This if the EXACT playbook that they had back then, except that they can’t call it equity now. That’s why you get the democrats grasping at weird straws to justify the equity play (eg theoretical transportation cost savings).

It’s very transparent, and if you can’t see that perhaps you should be doing your homework.

DP btw.

Repeating it since you seem to be operating on tin foil hat conspiracies and gossip:

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

Um, 2019 called. This if the EXACT playbook that they had back then, except that they can’t call it equity now. That’s why you get the democrats grasping at weird straws to justify the equity play (eg theoretical transportation cost savings).

It’s very transparent, and if you can’t see that perhaps you should be doing your homework.

DP btw.

Repeating it since you seem to be operating on tin foil hat conspiracies and gossip:

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

It doesn’t have the word equity because drawing boundaries to balance out the schools in terms of the race/ethnicity is illegal. I’m not sure if it’s illegal to base it on income/FARMS rate. So of course they’re not going to literally come out and say they’re redrawing boundaries for equity because that would open them up to an immediate lawsuit and a smack down from the state.

But during one of the SB meetings about the boundary policy, one of the SB’s teacher lackeys who actually does teach at HVES, praised the board for considering equity. So which is it? Purely transportation savings, cleaning up the attendance islands and split feeders, and better using available space vs. spending more money on construction projects? (That particular ship sailed a long time ago with the WP expansion …) Or is it going to be “equity” in all but the actual word, trying to balance out the FARMS rate at all the schools, and trying to prop up enrollment at under enrolled schools by any means possible? We don’t know and that’s why people are concerned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

Um, 2019 called. This if the EXACT playbook that they had back then, except that they can’t call it equity now. That’s why you get the democrats grasping at weird straws to justify the equity play (eg theoretical transportation cost savings).

It’s very transparent, and if you can’t see that perhaps you should be doing your homework.

DP btw.

Repeating it since you seem to be operating on tin foil hat conspiracies and gossip:

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

Handing in my homework. Straight from the frickin’ policy:

“Access to Programming: Ensure equitable access to programs and facilities, and consider impact on school programs and populations.”

It’s their first mandatory criteria. You’re not good at this.

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

Um, 2019 called. This if the EXACT playbook that they had back then, except that they can’t call it equity now. That’s why you get the democrats grasping at weird straws to justify the equity play (eg theoretical transportation cost savings).

It’s very transparent, and if you can’t see that perhaps you should be doing your homework.

DP btw.

Repeating it since you seem to be operating on tin foil hat conspiracies and gossip:

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

Handing in my homework. Straight from the frickin’ policy:

“Access to Programming: Ensure equitable access to programs and facilities, and consider impact on school programs and populations.”

It’s their first mandatory criteria. You’re not good at this.

Here, let me help you out a bit. "Equitable access"...means fair access (see receipt linked below)...you Republicans oppose fairness now? Get a grip. I grade your homework as a C. Nice try, but plainly transparent and just dumb.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/equitable

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

Um, 2019 called. This if the EXACT playbook that they had back then, except that they can’t call it equity now. That’s why you get the democrats grasping at weird straws to justify the equity play (eg theoretical transportation cost savings).

It’s very transparent, and if you can’t see that perhaps you should be doing your homework.

DP btw.

Repeating it since you seem to be operating on tin foil hat conspiracies and gossip:

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

It doesn’t have the word equity because drawing boundaries to balance out the schools in terms of the race/ethnicity is illegal. I’m not sure if it’s illegal to base it on income/FARMS rate. So of course they’re not going to literally come out and say they’re redrawing boundaries for equity because that would open them up to an immediate lawsuit and a smack down from the state.

But during one of the SB meetings about the boundary policy, one of the SB’s teacher lackeys who actually does teach at HVES, praised the board for considering equity. So which is it? Purely transportation savings, cleaning up the attendance islands and split feeders, and better using available space vs. spending more money on construction projects? (That particular ship sailed a long time ago with the WP expansion …) Or is it going to be “equity” in all but the actual word, trying to balance out the FARMS rate at all the schools, and trying to prop up enrollment at under enrolled schools by any means possible? We don’t know and that’s why people are concerned.

Thank you for proving my point. As for the rest, well, I suggest you go buy tin foil in bulk with all that conspiracy nonsense you're dishing out. You have a lot of hats to make.

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Anonymous wrote:If you would like to contact Sandy Evans to comment about HVES/WSHS students being moved to Lewis HS, https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fcps.edu%2Fstaff%2Fsandy-anderson%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0Gr3cAoZnJjBsEbcH17W9nrzCATjQz1jkd4738QQIv6J2czoJJsOakSrc_aem_5LAlboGhtWlnyzOk6TmejA&h=AT1upZxnEvMyjYUIbWPZqa_42yfaQYrNgXcsxeysrCfF7TeaC62598bH5-c7HFm_rHGi9RQ68PeO2FS6iXXZVByTgOMhstF3NfvpH3Cf3fgDO8y6zDaNrXhceGozfM8u5g&__tn__=R]-R&c[0]=AT0eMXYcxKKCnoAV3K2xTOke30P9EWcS-jOEOa-esEHravjz14pJp56bkaFOfaJbTP7G0gJw01i3_Ul4-znX7FYoSxsZZcoEH3vWQRERu79Oc6ycXXNOtifzJOiEx4WR8qfQ61HtixWJE_rz4XkHdNz9VqTgcSpA7rwDujkDOylf2yoHz9qqwl5zQxis9E8

Lewis is a failed HS and a lot of time, money, and resources has been poured into Lewis over the past 5 years, with no improvement. Now they want to move high SES, non-FARMS students to come in to help fix the school? Lewis is an FCPS problem, expecting good students from stable families to come in save the school is an interesting Hail Mary by Dr Reid. No way that people who paid almost a million dollars for a 50 y.o. split level in West Springfield are going to go for that nonsense.

No dog in this fight, but that attitude needs to go. It's absolutely not FCPS's nor the taxpayer's responsibility to remove all risk from overbidding for real estate. Do you always support government intervention, or only when the government will save your bottom line?

No one overbid for a house in West Springfield, we bought in a stable district with great schools. Lewis has been mismanaged by years, including appointing a Principal and nominating him as Principal of the Year, for no accomplishment. Why was that? Enormous amounts of money, resources, staff, and trial programs have been poured into Lewis, with no results. Nearby Hayfield HS and Edison HS have a number of out of state and out of district students, no one is focused on that issue either. There are 4 other HS's closer to West Springfield, but somehow bussing West Springfield students through the Mixing Bowl during morning and evening rush hours and requiring parents and student drivers to move through that same traffic nightmare is going to help solve what issue? The traffic and bussing issue should have made this a nonstarter from the get go. WS students will now spend 1+hour commuting each way for Dr Reid's equity experiment.

No dog in the fight? Are you a taxpayer? Are you concerned about FCPS waste and abuse? Are you a county resident and tax payer? Which school district do you live in?

Actually I do not support government intervention. At all. The government is seldom concerned about the bottom line or doing what is best for the majority of citizens. The school district is spending millions to build the Dunn Loring ES, where it is not needed; spent millions to expand WestPo, when it was not needed.

Can you substantiate that first bold claim? ESL and high FARMS heavy schools typically do get more funding, but 'enormous' amounts? And no results? The results are different because many of the students are starting at a much different place.

Second bold statement - the only high school closer to West Springfield than Lewis is Lake Braddock. The drive to Lewis is either straight down Old Keene Mill / Franconia to Frontier or you can use the elevated section of Franconia to bypass the mall area and then go in through the Springfield Estates neighborhood. Or other students would go straight down the parkway to Frontier. This is not a terrible commute. But you know that.

Third bold statement - just a bit of exaggeration in that commute timeline...

South County is equidistant for some WSHS Boundary area now

Yep, SCHS makes sense and WSHS families would object but ultimately accept, but Lewis would bring about an insurrection.

South County is also trending toward long term under-enrollment. As a person who lives in this area of the county I don’t know whether to be relieved that no one seems to notice or care about us, or be a little concerned.

Relieved. You do not want this SB focusing on your school at all.

+1. I’ll have a kid at South County in another year and I don’t want any attention on the school or its enrollment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Driving the speed limit from Hunt Valley Elementary to Lewis at low traffic times is 20 minutes. You cross multiple stoplights, several major intersections, the Rolling Road interchage which carries almost all of the Fort Belvoir commuting traffic, the Springfield Metro exit/entrance traffic, the Springfield Mall traffic, and the Mixing Bowl, while passing by at least 2 other WSHS zoned elementary schools (one of which is 5 minutes from Lewis and the other one currently a split feeder to Lewis).

Driving the speed limit from Hunt Valley Elementary to West Springfield during low traffic times is 5 to 7 minutes, depending on whether or not you hit a red light at Hillside. The ride is all neighborhood roads except for a few dozen yards on Old Keene Mill between Huntsman and Hillside, 2 stoplights if your kid drives themselves, 3 stoplights if your kid is riding the bus or is a senior with a parking lot pass. Two of the stoplights are a right turn. One stoplight is a left turn that has a yield green light for most of the cycle. Every Hunt Valley neighborhood inside the parkway is walkable to WSHS. The entire Hunt Valley zoned neighborhood is bike able to WSHS.

It takes roughly the ssme amount of time to drive the back neighborhood roads from Hunt Valley neighborhoods to West Springfield as it does to drive the neighborhood roads from Hunt Valley neighborhoods just to merging onto the Parkway.

From the parkway merge fown the parkway through the mixing bowl to Lewis is another 10 to 15 minutes at best, during low traffic times.

Anyone who claims otherwise is full of it, or is quoting a time as the crow flies from the very last house on the very edge of the Rolling Valley Elementary/Hunt Valley border, and not road traffic.

One can only hope that this person claiming such a ridiculous commute time has nothing to do with determining the rezoning maps.

If they are involved in the rezoning process, the whole district is screwed.

She isn't. It's Saratoga Mom on her one-woman crusade to rezone Hunt Valley to Lewis.

DD did a camp at Saratoga a few weeks ago. That school was run down and the area around it was mostly older townhomes and not well maintained SFHs. It’s not a nice area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

Smoke and mirrors. We know what they mean. WS native and current resident.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, FCPS is looking thru their equity lens; this a part of the great plan to boost achievement and of course lessen the FARMS numbers. I hope parents refuse to accept this arrangement.

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

Um, 2019 called. This if the EXACT playbook that they had back then, except that they can’t call it equity now. That’s why you get the democrats grasping at weird straws to justify the equity play (eg theoretical transportation cost savings).

It’s very transparent, and if you can’t see that perhaps you should be doing your homework.

DP btw.

Repeating it since you seem to be operating on tin foil hat conspiracies and gossip:

The new policy doesn’t even have the word equity and it puts a priority on building capacity and transportation efficiency.

You really need to do your homework if you’re going to comment on things.

It doesn’t have the word equity because drawing boundaries to balance out the schools in terms of the race/ethnicity is illegal. I’m not sure if it’s illegal to base it on income/FARMS rate. So of course they’re not going to literally come out and say they’re redrawing boundaries for equity because that would open them up to an immediate lawsuit and a smack down from the state.

But during one of the SB meetings about the boundary policy, one of the SB’s teacher lackeys who actually does teach at HVES, praised the board for considering equity. So which is it? Purely transportation savings, cleaning up the attendance islands and split feeders, and better using available space vs. spending more money on construction projects? (That particular ship sailed a long time ago with the WP expansion …) Or is it going to be “equity” in all but the actual word, trying to balance out the FARMS rate at all the schools, and trying to prop up enrollment at under enrolled schools by any means possible? We don’t know and that’s why people are concerned.

Thank you for proving my point. As for the rest, well, I suggest you go buy tin foil in bulk with all that conspiracy nonsense you're dishing out. You have a lot of hats to make.

Why do you think it’s a conspiracy, knowing what you know about this school board and their total focus on the “equity lens?”