Experience at Key Middle School and Lee High School in Springfield

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happening at Lee High School -

Lancer Singers have been invited to sing at Carnegie Hall in New York City next March as part of an exclusive concert for top-ranked choirs.

https://www.lancersingers.org/

That is wonderful. Congratulations to them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happening at Lee High School -

Lancer Singers have been invited to sing at Carnegie Hall in New York City next March as part of an exclusive concert for top-ranked choirs.

https://www.lancersingers.org/

That is wonderful. Congratulations to them!

Who determined that the Lee choir was “top-ranked”?

[Anonymous]

Lee HS Students Win Drive Like a Girl Competition

https://www.fcps.edu/news/lee-hs-students-win-drive-girl-competition?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

[Anonymous]

Link to another thread about Key and Lee.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/733938.page
What I got from the discussion
1. Add an AAP program at Key
2. Get rid of IB or AP and IB or get rid of IB at other HS and make Lee an IB magnet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our kids are currently attending Garfield Elementary and wanted to hear perspectives from parents whose children attended Key Middle School and Lee High School in Springfield. I know the schools have a negative reputation from rankings and demographics, so those who do not have first hand experience of the schools please do not share the perceptions based on those rankings/statistics.

I know several parents who visited the principal at Lee Deirdre Lavery and left feeling very positive. I recommend you visit the school yourself.[/quotes]

Principal Lavery is retiring in June.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our kids are currently attending Garfield Elementary and wanted to hear perspectives from parents whose children attended Key Middle School and Lee High School in Springfield. I know the schools have a negative reputation from rankings and demographics, so those who do not have first hand experience of the schools please do not share the perceptions based on those rankings/statistics.

I know several parents who visited the principal at Lee Deirdre Lavery and left feeling very positive. I recommend you visit the school yourself.[/quotes]

Principal Lavery is retiring in June.

What’s your source? Has she officially announced her retirement?

[Anonymous]

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAEDUFCPS/bulletins/23d6169
FCPS News You Choose
April 11th.

[Anonymous]

https://www.fcps.edu/news/kimberly-boateng-elected-student-representative-school-board?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

Kimberly Boateng, a sophomore at Lee High School, has been elected by the countywide Student Advisory Council (SAC) to serve a one-year term as student representative to the Fairfax County School Board, beginning July 1.

[Anonymous]

I went to both Key and Lewis (back when it was called Lee) I was there in 2019 and I didn’t have a positive experience. I was picked on and bullied and admin repeatedly did nothing even after being physically assaulted. This carried on into highschool so I ended up leaving Lee for my last 2 years and missed out on a great deal of the highschool experience to opt for an alternative school with strict rules on student conduct.

As far as teachers go I would say Lee does have a few good ones. However admin repeatedly ignored bullying and I was not the only person who felt that way.

[Anonymous]

The students in the Lewis Leadership Program created a Museum of Service honoring those who have served the community.

https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/american-history-through-local-lens-teaching-america-at-250

[Anonymous]

How many students have transferred into Lewis to join this program? Is it working to help grow the student population?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many students have transferred into Lewis to join this program? Is it working to help grow the student population?

Only 1 did and they already left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The students in the Lewis Leadership Program created a Museum of Service honoring those who have served the community.

https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/american-history-through-local-lens-teaching-america-at-250

I know this will sound condescending but this “Museum of Service” sounds like what routinely happens at a matter of course at other schools. It may be that to engage students at Lewis they need to dress it up a bit more, and if so that’s great, but it’s not the sort of thing that’s likely to lead students in other pyramids to get excited about the “leadership” program there the way that, say, the specialized performing arts courses at the Fairfax Academy or health sciences courses at the Falls Church Academy attract other students.

[Anonymous]

Crazy necro thread. Good lord.

[Anonymous]

Last posting on this thread was 5 years ago. Why respond to a 5 yr old comment? Weird.