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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...

The mental gymnastics people attempt to justify the commute is insane. It doesn't make any sense on any level for any reason to do this.

Why is the debate surrounding Hunt Valley elementary? It’s a slow day at work so I just looked at the maps since I live in the area. West Springfield elementary is closer to Lewis than Hunt Valley. Saratoga zoned for Lewis makes sense and I can see why that was done when South County was built. It’s cut off from the other areas due to Pohick Creek. Hunt Valley doesn’t make sense. However, the boundaries of West Springfield are compact and it doesn’t make sense to transfer kids from a successful school closer to their home to help improve a poorly performing school.

I think the issue is that rolling valley, Keane mill , cardinal forest, and WSES are so close including walkers I believe to at least Irving and WSHS. Orange Hunt would create an island.

WSES seems like the only alternative if you have to pick one and could work but they are right next to Irving and then there’s the name.

HV shares boundaries with Lewis and are already on a bus. Not that I agree with it but I think that’s the logic. And yes I understand that a longer commute goes against statements about boundary change purpose. That same argument works for WSES as well wrt to Key and Lewis.

The compact boundaries make it really hard to move any school without feeling like it doesn’t make sense.

+1 there’s no current gerrymandering in WSHS boundaries. There IS some weirdness they could clean up at the ES level, but that would be just within the pyramid and would not affect the high school.

Even with those compact boundaries, if a move needs happen, SCHS makes much more sense if we are really looking at enrollment and transportation costs. Lewis and SCHS are both under enrolled by a very similar amount (at 86% and 88% capacity last school year) My HVES neighborhood is 3.5 miles and 8 minutes to SCHS along neighborhood roads, whereas Lewis 6 miles and 12 minutes using the Parkway and traversing the mess and congestion around the mixing bowl area. Note these times are from right now, other times of the day would tell a different story, especially for the Lewis commute. West Springfield High School is 4.7 miles away and can be reached by neighborhood roads. The commute is a major quality of life issue. It's the difference between driving to an event or activity vs fighting traffic to get to an event or activity. I really hope a traffic study is part of this process.

Also, HVES itself is 4.3 miles from SCHS and Lewis is 6.5 miles from HVES. Lake Braddock is 5.1 miles away if we want to throw them in for comparison since they are also under enrolled. There are a lot of options for relieving the capacity issues at WSHS that do not involve sending students to a school that is much farther away.

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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...

The mental gymnastics people attempt to justify the commute is insane. It doesn't make any sense on any level for any reason to do this.

Why is the debate surrounding Hunt Valley elementary? It’s a slow day at work so I just looked at the maps since I live in the area. West Springfield elementary is closer to Lewis than Hunt Valley. Saratoga zoned for Lewis makes sense and I can see why that was done when South County was built. It’s cut off from the other areas due to Pohick Creek. Hunt Valley doesn’t make sense. However, the boundaries of West Springfield are compact and it doesn’t make sense to transfer kids from a successful school closer to their home to help improve a poorly performing school.

I think the issue is that rolling valley, Keane mill , cardinal forest, and WSES are so close including walkers I believe to at least Irving and WSHS. Orange Hunt would create an island.

WSES seems like the only alternative if you have to pick one and could work but they are right next to Irving and then there’s the name.

HV shares boundaries with Lewis and are already on a bus. Not that I agree with it but I think that’s the logic. And yes I understand that a longer commute goes against statements about boundary change purpose. That same argument works for WSES as well wrt to Key and Lewis.

The compact boundaries make it really hard to move any school without feeling like it doesn’t make sense.

+1 there’s no current gerrymandering in WSHS boundaries. There IS some weirdness they could clean up at the ES level, but that would be just within the pyramid and would not affect the high school.

Even with those compact boundaries, if a move needs happen, SCHS makes much more sense if we are really looking at enrollment and transportation costs. Lewis and SCHS are both under enrolled by a very similar amount (at 86% and 88% capacity last school year) My HVES neighborhood is 3.5 miles and 8 minutes to SCHS along neighborhood roads, whereas Lewis 6 miles and 12 minutes using the Parkway and traversing the mess and congestion around the mixing bowl area. Note these times are from right now, other times of the day would tell a different story, especially for the Lewis commute. West Springfield High School is 4.7 miles away and can be reached by neighborhood roads. The commute is a major quality of life issue. It's the difference between driving to an event or activity vs fighting traffic to get to an event or activity. I really hope a traffic study is part of this process.

The psychological barrier is real and will impact family engagement. I'm not a HVES parent but there is absolutely no way I would make that drive in the morning or evening in either direction. There's a difference between what is measured on google and waze and the true nature of the drive and stoplight delays. But there are parents who surprisingly do not prioritize the school pyramid and who do not care about engaging with their child's school, and these are the types of families that will eventually fill out whatever WS neighborhood is rezoned to Lewis.

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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.

These equity moves only reduce the % of FARMS within the school's population, the moves do not lessen the FARMS numbers or help the existing FARMS population. One of two things will happen when high SES kids are cut over to Lewis as tribute: 1) They will immediately start taking opportunities that existing Lewis kids previously had like leadership/sports/club positions, to the detriment of the current Lewis population, or 2) Non-assimilation of the new 'rich kids', the face of which will be the white population. Lewis had 196 white students in 2023. The equity move will increase this number to 396, assuming an entire ES is moved over (4 HS grades, 100 students per grade, 50% white). It will be no secret to the entire student body, and particularly a 63% FARMS population that 'rich kids' were imported to make the failing school better, and the face of the imported 'rich kids' will be the white population that doubles in size from 10% to 20%. And yes, WSHS area is not Vienna/McLean/Tysons 'rich', but even small things like driving a car to school and having premium sports equipment makes one a target of resent. If I was a non-white and/or FARMS student I would resent these new kids and treat them differently, and with good reason. The message that the SB is unintentionally sending to these Lewis students (88% non-white) is that they are not good enough, so bring in the rich kids to make things better. And because of the existing Lewis population and the population that's projected to move over, the white kids will be seen as the 'rich kids'.

Just wow. Flabbergasted that you actually posted that. Just because you have insecurities and prejudices against those who are wealthier and/or culturally different from you doesn't mean that all kids do. Especially Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids who see much less "color" than you do.

I am PP and could have left "non-white" out of the bolded statement, because this is haves vs have nots. I am non-white person who grew up poor in a Richmond school much like Lewis, so was speaking for myself and from my own experience. It is simply human nature to have feelings when you see your peers with things you don't have and wonder why the world is unfair. My point is that the move is going to amplify the faces of the haves at Lewis as mainly white students, and the message I would receive as a non-white student at Lewis is "your kind aren't good enough so we are sending white people in to fix a problem". There will certainly be asian, black, and hispanic students moved as well, but because of existing demographics none of their populations will double, while the white population will. Again this is a social experiment. Although Gen Z and A kids see less color this could actually cause them to see things more in terms of color.

+1 I will add I grew up outside of Baltimore. I know how easily racism you see in the news and stereotypes that run in the media/culturally gets amplified when you have people of color around you who are struggling. I wanted my kids to grow up around high performing minorities so they can see all races as equal not as the whites are the have and the colored are the hhave nots. Research often shows this is the way to combat racism- to have examples around you of high performing minorities. Ways is an amazing example of this aAND of compact boundaries. To mess with it is to ruin the very example of what the board wants to create.

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You can't have a county-wide school and tolerate the disparities that exist between West Springfield and Lewis. It's about time they do something about it.

Past School Boards and FCPS staff have absolutely played favorites. That's how West Springfield got renovated ahead of schedule (trade-off that involved closing Clifton ES) and then got a major expansion courtesy of a former facilities head who went to WSHS. It's also why schools like Lewis, in contrast, ended up with a poor reputation. They need to start making amends.

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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.

These equity moves only reduce the % of FARMS within the school's population, the moves do not lessen the FARMS numbers or help the existing FARMS population. One of two things will happen when high SES kids are cut over to Lewis as tribute: 1) They will immediately start taking opportunities that existing Lewis kids previously had like leadership/sports/club positions, to the detriment of the current Lewis population, or 2) Non-assimilation of the new 'rich kids', the face of which will be the white population. Lewis had 196 white students in 2023. The equity move will increase this number to 396, assuming an entire ES is moved over (4 HS grades, 100 students per grade, 50% white). It will be no secret to the entire student body, and particularly a 63% FARMS population that 'rich kids' were imported to make the failing school better, and the face of the imported 'rich kids' will be the white population that doubles in size from 10% to 20%. And yes, WSHS area is not Vienna/McLean/Tysons 'rich', but even small things like driving a car to school and having premium sports equipment makes one a target of resent. If I was a non-white and/or FARMS student I would resent these new kids and treat them differently, and with good reason. The message that the SB is unintentionally sending to these Lewis students (88% non-white) is that they are not good enough, so bring in the rich kids to make things better. And because of the existing Lewis population and the population that's projected to move over, the white kids will be seen as the 'rich kids'.

Just wow. Flabbergasted that you actually posted that. Just because you have insecurities and prejudices against those who are wealthier and/or culturally different from you doesn't mean that all kids do. Especially Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids who see much less "color" than you do.

I am PP and could have left "non-white" out of the bolded statement, because this is haves vs have nots. I am non-white person who grew up poor in a Richmond school much like Lewis, so was speaking for myself and from my own experience. It is simply human nature to have feelings when you see your peers with things you don't have and wonder why the world is unfair. My point is that the move is going to amplify the faces of the haves at Lewis as mainly white students, and the message I would receive as a non-white student at Lewis is "your kind aren't good enough so we are sending white people in to fix a problem". There will certainly be asian, black, and hispanic students moved as well, but because of existing demographics none of their populations will double, while the white population will. Again this is a social experiment. Although Gen Z and A kids see less color this could actually cause them to see things more in terms of color.

+1 I will add I grew up outside of Baltimore. I know how easily racism you see in the news and stereotypes that run in the media/culturally gets amplified when you have people of color around you who are struggling. I wanted my kids to grow up around high performing minorities so they can see all races as equal not as the whites are the have and the colored are the hhave nots. Research often shows this is the way to combat racism- to have examples around you of high performing minorities. Ways is an amazing example of this aAND of compact boundaries. To mess with it is to ruin the very example of what the board wants to create.

For the hundredth time: boundary shapes are zero-sum. A small number of schools have the good fortune of being very compact and roughly circular, Chantilly is another good example, at the detriment of surrounding schools who have to make up for it with wonky boundaries.

It's not off-base to make a few catchments less than perfectly ideal if it helps makes other catchments not absurd (Langley, Woodson). Again, it's zero-sum.

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Anonymous wrote:You can't have a county-wide school and tolerate the disparities that exist between West Springfield and Lewis. It's about time they do something about it.

Past School Boards and FCPS staff have absolutely played favorites. That's how West Springfield got renovated ahead of schedule (trade-off that involved closing Clifton ES) and then got a major expansion courtesy of a former facilities head who went to WSHS. It's also why schools like Lewis, in contrast, ended up with a poor reputation. They need to start making amends.

Yep. WSHS and Lewis are the first to "get adjusted". Horrible optics.

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Anonymous wrote:You can't have a county-wide school and tolerate the disparities that exist between West Springfield and Lewis. It's about time they do something about it.

Past School Boards and FCPS staff have absolutely played favorites. That's how West Springfield got renovated ahead of schedule (trade-off that involved closing Clifton ES) and then got a major expansion courtesy of a former facilities head who went to WSHS. It's also why schools like Lewis, in contrast, ended up with a poor reputation. They need to start making amends.

Yep. WSHS and Lewis are the first to "get adjusted". Horrible optics.

Got it. So children are resources to be reallocated in order to make amends?

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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.

These equity moves only reduce the % of FARMS within the school's population, the moves do not lessen the FARMS numbers or help the existing FARMS population. One of two things will happen when high SES kids are cut over to Lewis as tribute: 1) They will immediately start taking opportunities that existing Lewis kids previously had like leadership/sports/club positions, to the detriment of the current Lewis population, or 2) Non-assimilation of the new 'rich kids', the face of which will be the white population. Lewis had 196 white students in 2023. The equity move will increase this number to 396, assuming an entire ES is moved over (4 HS grades, 100 students per grade, 50% white). It will be no secret to the entire student body, and particularly a 63% FARMS population that 'rich kids' were imported to make the failing school better, and the face of the imported 'rich kids' will be the white population that doubles in size from 10% to 20%. And yes, WSHS area is not Vienna/McLean/Tysons 'rich', but even small things like driving a car to school and having premium sports equipment makes one a target of resent. If I was a non-white and/or FARMS student I would resent these new kids and treat them differently, and with good reason. The message that the SB is unintentionally sending to these Lewis students (88% non-white) is that they are not good enough, so bring in the rich kids to make things better. And because of the existing Lewis population and the population that's projected to move over, the white kids will be seen as the 'rich kids'.

Just wow. Flabbergasted that you actually posted that. Just because you have insecurities and prejudices against those who are wealthier and/or culturally different from you doesn't mean that all kids do. Especially Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids who see much less "color" than you do.

I am PP and could have left "non-white" out of the bolded statement, because this is haves vs have nots. I am non-white person who grew up poor in a Richmond school much like Lewis, so was speaking for myself and from my own experience. It is simply human nature to have feelings when you see your peers with things you don't have and wonder why the world is unfair. My point is that the move is going to amplify the faces of the haves at Lewis as mainly white students, and the message I would receive as a non-white student at Lewis is "your kind aren't good enough so we are sending white people in to fix a problem". There will certainly be asian, black, and hispanic students moved as well, but because of existing demographics none of their populations will double, while the white population will. Again this is a social experiment. Although Gen Z and A kids see less color this could actually cause them to see things more in terms of color.

+1 I will add I grew up outside of Baltimore. I know how easily racism you see in the news and stereotypes that run in the media/culturally gets amplified when you have people of color around you who are struggling. I wanted my kids to grow up around high performing minorities so they can see all races as equal not as the whites are the have and the colored are the hhave nots. Research often shows this is the way to combat racism- to have examples around you of high performing minorities. Ways is an amazing example of this aAND of compact boundaries. To mess with it is to ruin the very example of what the board wants to create.

But you could also view it as "increase in population allows more opportunities".

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Anonymous wrote:You can't have a county-wide school and tolerate the disparities that exist between West Springfield and Lewis. It's about time they do something about it.

Past School Boards and FCPS staff have absolutely played favorites. That's how West Springfield got renovated ahead of schedule (trade-off that involved closing Clifton ES) and then got a major expansion courtesy of a former facilities head who went to WSHS. It's also why schools like Lewis, in contrast, ended up with a poor reputation. They need to start making amends.

Yep. WSHS and Lewis are the first to "get adjusted". Horrible optics.

Got it. So children are resources to be reallocated in order to make amends?

Yes. These two schools are small percentage of kids in the county. Deal.

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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.

+1. She’s trying ever so hard to pretend, despite what the democrats on the board have been laser focused on for the last five years.

It’s kinda pathetic. I’m sure the SB has been told because of recent Supreme Court decisions that they can’t say equity, but to try to carry that water on this thread is pathetic.

So you mean an officer's kid that happened to have parents listen to gossip of the times about Lee. Gotcha. Your parents knew what was up......

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It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. Lots of focus on Herndon/Langley and Lewis/WSHS in these boundary threads. All speculation at this point.

Imagine telling Langley kids they get to go to HHS because it’s much closer then turn around and tell some WSHS communities that your bus time has doubled/tripled.

…All the while seemingly ignoring the two of the most crowded schools in the county (CVHS and CHS) so that we can wait for an expansion to complete in 5 years that has the following characteristics:
- an expansion costing ~150 million while also simultaneously raising taxes because as some have said, we don’t have any money
- built out to 3000 seats while some are also claiming that WSHS should not be that large because it hampers opportunities and is “ridiculous” next to Lewis.
- while also knowing that enrollment is shrinking in both schools.

Again all speculation, maybe nothing happens.

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Anonymous wrote:You can't have a county-wide school and tolerate the disparities that exist between West Springfield and Lewis. It's about time they do something about it.

Past School Boards and FCPS staff have absolutely played favorites. That's how West Springfield got renovated ahead of schedule (trade-off that involved closing Clifton ES) and then got a major expansion courtesy of a former facilities head who went to WSHS. It's also why schools like Lewis, in contrast, ended up with a poor reputation. They need to start making amends.

Yep. WSHS and Lewis are the first to "get adjusted". Horrible optics.

Got it. So children are resources to be reallocated in order to make amends?

Yes. These two schools are small percentage of kids in the county. Deal.

Would you deal if your kid was at risk of being moved between their sophomore and junior year? The least the SB can do is grandfather. I know you’re not going to answer that question genuinely because you are either not in that position or stand to gain the disruption to my children’s lives, It’s a different story when it’s not theoretical.

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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.

+1. She’s trying ever so hard to pretend, despite what the democrats on the board have been laser focused on for the last five years.

It’s kinda pathetic. I’m sure the SB has been told because of recent Supreme Court decisions that they can’t say equity, but to try to carry that water on this thread is pathetic.

So you mean an officer's kid that happened to have parents listen to gossip of the times about Lee. Gotcha. Your parents knew what was up......

I’m confused. Maybe you are responding to a different post?

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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.

No it isn't. If you watched the meeting, there were about 100 viewing and a room full of Langley parents not wanting to get shifted to Herndon. They all had the same signs and reactions. Nobody cares about any of this except Hunt Valley families. In fact, Forestville folks can almost breathe a little easier because there is no way they would move them if they don't move Hunt Valley.

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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.

So you must live in the Hunt Valley zone. Don't name-call. That's childish. Accept the things you can't change.