FCPS HS Boundary

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Anonymous wrote:So because your kid benefit from the current arrangement, other kids should be fine dealing with the “hooligans” and other challenges associated with Lewis, simply because it’s inconvenient to your child to try and remedy the issues?

It’s the audacity for me…

No. The school board should figure out how to fix the problems at Lewis, Herndon, etc. without negatively impacting kids who are doing fine where they are. This plan of shuffling kids around so all schools are about even in terms of underperforming students doesn't benefit anyone.

Schools cannot fix the types of problems found at these schools. Only the federal government can fix the border. As a parent with kids in feeder schools to one of these, just know that it isn't going to get better the next couple of years. These kids have been coming all year and at this point, there are so many they simply speak their native language in class to each other only and are not attempting even attempting English.

Well , you can bring boarder politics into it, but the reality is immigrants are getting jobs here, so they come. Maybe if we had health care p
This is so true. I substitute often in these schools, and the feeder elementaries as well. Groups of non-English speaking kids simply speak their native language (usually Spanish) in class and make no attempt to listen or try to speak English. This is entirely a Biden-made disaster and won't get better by simply shuffling kids around.
DP

No. Biden didn’t change the border policy to make this happen. In fact there was a bill that would have helped and Trump was the one who nixed it.
https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-pushing-hard-border-bill/story?id=106908843

That said this thread is more concerned about the borders in FCPS right now, so bring your concerns to the political discussion board.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the projections for WS? I thought while this current cohort of HS kids was large, the current ES cohort was smaller than typical.

You are correct.

Once the current class of 2026 graduates, all the subsequent classes go down in size significantly.

2026 is well over 700 students. 2025 and 2024 are in the mkd to upper 600s.

Every class after 2026 is in the low 600s.

WSHS will self correct without a boundary adjustment once 2026 graduates, based on all the numbers in the middle school and elementary classes zoned for WSHS.

However, there are many out of zone kids attending WSHS usiing other addresses.

WSHS needs to do a residency check before sny rezoning occurs.

The current numbers at Irving don’t align with this. Nice try.

j

Yes they do current 8th grade is 601 current 7th is 571

So let's parse this. The current enrollment at Irving (1217 as of the start of the 2023-24 school year) is the second-highest enrollment at Irving of any year since 2014-15. In addition to those students, there are 117 Irving kids who transferred out to other schools this year, including over 100 to Lake Braddock, and students who may attend West Springfield after attending K-8 parochial schools.

In comparison, Lewis is projected to have 1423 students by 2028-29. So even if West Springfield only had 2600 kids in 2028, rather than the 2925 students that FCPS is now projecting, there would still be a huge disparity between the two schools in terms of enrollment and opportunities. There's no other combination in FCPS of nearby high schools where the current and projected contrast in enrollment and opportunities is so glaring.

If you know the area at all, though, you'd know it's just not that simple to redraw Irving/WSHS boundaries. The boundary is not weirdly gerrymandered to keep kids out of Lewis. Except for that one neighborhood south of the parkway, the boundary makes sense. The neighborhoods closest to Lewis, that sort of northeast section, walks to Irving and is very close to West Springfield. Easily bikeable and walkable. I guess Daventry could go back to Key/Lewis and the area south of the parkway to either Lewis or South County. And maybe something on the west side to LBSS if they could absorb some more kids. Look, we are at WSHS/Irving but we aren't in a zone that would move, we are literally right in the middle of the boundary, so I'm not trying to plead my personal case. But the West Springfield boundary largely makes sense as is. There is just a lot of housing, a good amount of "affordable for the area" apartments and town houses. It's compact and all has the same mixed culture, government-type worker, military family, vibe. I think it would be a shame to mess it up.

I recognize that the current WSHS boundaries are relatively compact. However, the enrollment imbalance between WSHS and Lewis trumps that. We certainly shouldn't be allocating more money to expand WSHS again any time soon, and Lewis needs more students to thrive.

You WANT Lewis to have more kids, so advocate with the people there to not transfer.

Exactly.

Start with the 230 kids zoned for Lewis who currently transfer to other schools.

They transfer because Lewis doesn’t offer the classes that students want. There’s no guarantee that adding back those 230 kids would improve course availability or extracurricular activities at Lewis. Many more than 230 students would be needed for Lewis to compete with neighboring schools. Around 20 years ago, there wasn’t such disparity among schools. We need to correct and rebalance the schools, however that happens.

[Anonymous]

Is there a posted timeline for when they’ll get to the stage of actually proposing boundary changes? Wondering if we’re all going to have to continue speculating for years or months.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the projections for WS? I thought while this current cohort of HS kids was large, the current ES cohort was smaller than typical.

You are correct.

Once the current class of 2026 graduates, all the subsequent classes go down in size significantly.

2026 is well over 700 students. 2025 and 2024 are in the mkd to upper 600s.

Every class after 2026 is in the low 600s.

WSHS will self correct without a boundary adjustment once 2026 graduates, based on all the numbers in the middle school and elementary classes zoned for WSHS.

However, there are many out of zone kids attending WSHS usiing other addresses.

WSHS needs to do a residency check before sny rezoning occurs.

The current numbers at Irving don’t align with this. Nice try.

j

Yes they do current 8th grade is 601 current 7th is 571

So let's parse this. The current enrollment at Irving (1217 as of the start of the 2023-24 school year) is the second-highest enrollment at Irving of any year since 2014-15. In addition to those students, there are 117 Irving kids who transferred out to other schools this year, including over 100 to Lake Braddock, and students who may attend West Springfield after attending K-8 parochial schools.

In comparison, Lewis is projected to have 1423 students by 2028-29. So even if West Springfield only had 2600 kids in 2028, rather than the 2925 students that FCPS is now projecting, there would still be a huge disparity between the two schools in terms of enrollment and opportunities. There's no other combination in FCPS of nearby high schools where the current and projected contrast in enrollment and opportunities is so glaring.

If you know the area at all, though, you'd know it's just not that simple to redraw Irving/WSHS boundaries. The boundary is not weirdly gerrymandered to keep kids out of Lewis. Except for that one neighborhood south of the parkway, the boundary makes sense. The neighborhoods closest to Lewis, that sort of northeast section, walks to Irving and is very close to West Springfield. Easily bikeable and walkable. I guess Daventry could go back to Key/Lewis and the area south of the parkway to either Lewis or South County. And maybe something on the west side to LBSS if they could absorb some more kids. Look, we are at WSHS/Irving but we aren't in a zone that would move, we are literally right in the middle of the boundary, so I'm not trying to plead my personal case. But the West Springfield boundary largely makes sense as is. There is just a lot of housing, a good amount of "affordable for the area" apartments and town houses. It's compact and all has the same mixed culture, government-type worker, military family, vibe. I think it would be a shame to mess it up.

I recognize that the current WSHS boundaries are relatively compact. However, the enrollment imbalance between WSHS and Lewis trumps that. We certainly shouldn't be allocating more money to expand WSHS again any time soon, and Lewis needs more students to thrive.

You WANT Lewis to have more kids, so advocate with the people there to not transfer.

Exactly.

Start with the 230 kids zoned for Lewis who currently transfer to other schools.

Where does this number (230) come from? It doesn’t seem to jive with any of mobility numbers reported for the last few years via their FCPS school profile.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the projections for WS? I thought while this current cohort of HS kids was large, the current ES cohort was smaller than typical.

You are correct.

Once the current class of 2026 graduates, all the subsequent classes go down in size significantly.

2026 is well over 700 students. 2025 and 2024 are in the mkd to upper 600s.

Every class after 2026 is in the low 600s.

WSHS will self correct without a boundary adjustment once 2026 graduates, based on all the numbers in the middle school and elementary classes zoned for WSHS.

However, there are many out of zone kids attending WSHS usiing other addresses.

WSHS needs to do a residency check before sny rezoning occurs.

The current numbers at Irving don’t align with this. Nice try.

j

Yes they do current 8th grade is 601 current 7th is 571

So let's parse this. The current enrollment at Irving (1217 as of the start of the 2023-24 school year) is the second-highest enrollment at Irving of any year since 2014-15. In addition to those students, there are 117 Irving kids who transferred out to other schools this year, including over 100 to Lake Braddock, and students who may attend West Springfield after attending K-8 parochial schools.

In comparison, Lewis is projected to have 1423 students by 2028-29. So even if West Springfield only had 2600 kids in 2028, rather than the 2925 students that FCPS is now projecting, there would still be a huge disparity between the two schools in terms of enrollment and opportunities. There's no other combination in FCPS of nearby high schools where the current and projected contrast in enrollment and opportunities is so glaring.

If you know the area at all, though, you'd know it's just not that simple to redraw Irving/WSHS boundaries. The boundary is not weirdly gerrymandered to keep kids out of Lewis. Except for that one neighborhood south of the parkway, the boundary makes sense. The neighborhoods closest to Lewis, that sort of northeast section, walks to Irving and is very close to West Springfield. Easily bikeable and walkable. I guess Daventry could go back to Key/Lewis and the area south of the parkway to either Lewis or South County. And maybe something on the west side to LBSS if they could absorb some more kids. Look, we are at WSHS/Irving but we aren't in a zone that would move, we are literally right in the middle of the boundary, so I'm not trying to plead my personal case. But the West Springfield boundary largely makes sense as is. There is just a lot of housing, a good amount of "affordable for the area" apartments and town houses. It's compact and all has the same mixed culture, government-type worker, military family, vibe. I think it would be a shame to mess it up.

I recognize that the current WSHS boundaries are relatively compact. However, the enrollment imbalance between WSHS and Lewis trumps that. We certainly shouldn't be allocating more money to expand WSHS again any time soon, and Lewis needs more students to thrive.

You WANT Lewis to have more kids, so advocate with the people there to not transfer.

Exactly.

Start with the 230 kids zoned for Lewis who currently transfer to other schools.

Where does this number (230) come from? It doesn’t seem to jive with any of mobility numbers reported for the last few years via their FCPS school profile.

I think PP is referring to the numbers of student transfers out of Lewis reflected on the FCPS capacity dashboard page.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the projections for WS? I thought while this current cohort of HS kids was large, the current ES cohort was smaller than typical.

You are correct.

Once the current class of 2026 graduates, all the subsequent classes go down in size significantly.

2026 is well over 700 students. 2025 and 2024 are in the mkd to upper 600s.

Every class after 2026 is in the low 600s.

WSHS will self correct without a boundary adjustment once 2026 graduates, based on all the numbers in the middle school and elementary classes zoned for WSHS.

However, there are many out of zone kids attending WSHS usiing other addresses.

WSHS needs to do a residency check before sny rezoning occurs.

The current numbers at Irving don’t align with this. Nice try.

j

Yes they do current 8th grade is 601 current 7th is 571

So let's parse this. The current enrollment at Irving (1217 as of the start of the 2023-24 school year) is the second-highest enrollment at Irving of any year since 2014-15. In addition to those students, there are 117 Irving kids who transferred out to other schools this year, including over 100 to Lake Braddock, and students who may attend West Springfield after attending K-8 parochial schools.

In comparison, Lewis is projected to have 1423 students by 2028-29. So even if West Springfield only had 2600 kids in 2028, rather than the 2925 students that FCPS is now projecting, there would still be a huge disparity between the two schools in terms of enrollment and opportunities. There's no other combination in FCPS of nearby high schools where the current and projected contrast in enrollment and opportunities is so glaring.

If you know the area at all, though, you'd know it's just not that simple to redraw Irving/WSHS boundaries. The boundary is not weirdly gerrymandered to keep kids out of Lewis. Except for that one neighborhood south of the parkway, the boundary makes sense. The neighborhoods closest to Lewis, that sort of northeast section, walks to Irving and is very close to West Springfield. Easily bikeable and walkable. I guess Daventry could go back to Key/Lewis and the area south of the parkway to either Lewis or South County. And maybe something on the west side to LBSS if they could absorb some more kids. Look, we are at WSHS/Irving but we aren't in a zone that would move, we are literally right in the middle of the boundary, so I'm not trying to plead my personal case. But the West Springfield boundary largely makes sense as is. There is just a lot of housing, a good amount of "affordable for the area" apartments and town houses. It's compact and all has the same mixed culture, government-type worker, military family, vibe. I think it would be a shame to mess it up.

I recognize that the current WSHS boundaries are relatively compact. However, the enrollment imbalance between WSHS and Lewis trumps that. We certainly shouldn't be allocating more money to expand WSHS again any time soon, and Lewis needs more students to thrive.

You WANT Lewis to have more kids, so advocate with the people there to not transfer.

Exactly.

Start with the 230 kids zoned for Lewis who currently transfer to other schools.

Where does this number (230) come from? It doesn’t seem to jive with any of mobility numbers reported for the last few years via their FCPS school profile.

I think PP is referring to the numbers of student transfers out of Lewis reflected on the FCPS capacity dashboard page.

Awesome, thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:What are the projections for WS? I thought while this current cohort of HS kids was large, the current ES cohort was smaller than typical.

You are correct.

Once the current class of 2026 graduates, all the subsequent classes go down in size significantly.

2026 is well over 700 students. 2025 and 2024 are in the mkd to upper 600s.

Every class after 2026 is in the low 600s.

WSHS will self correct without a boundary adjustment once 2026 graduates, based on all the numbers in the middle school and elementary classes zoned for WSHS.

However, there are many out of zone kids attending WSHS usiing other addresses.

WSHS needs to do a residency check before sny rezoning occurs.

The current numbers at Irving don’t align with this. Nice try.

j

Yes they do current 8th grade is 601 current 7th is 571

So let's parse this. The current enrollment at Irving (1217 as of the start of the 2023-24 school year) is the second-highest enrollment at Irving of any year since 2014-15. In addition to those students, there are 117 Irving kids who transferred out to other schools this year, including over 100 to Lake Braddock, and students who may attend West Springfield after attending K-8 parochial schools.

In comparison, Lewis is projected to have 1423 students by 2028-29. So even if West Springfield only had 2600 kids in 2028, rather than the 2925 students that FCPS is now projecting, there would still be a huge disparity between the two schools in terms of enrollment and opportunities. There's no other combination in FCPS of nearby high schools where the current and projected contrast in enrollment and opportunities is so glaring.

If you know the area at all, though, you'd know it's just not that simple to redraw Irving/WSHS boundaries. The boundary is not weirdly gerrymandered to keep kids out of Lewis. Except for that one neighborhood south of the parkway, the boundary makes sense. The neighborhoods closest to Lewis, that sort of northeast section, walks to Irving and is very close to West Springfield. Easily bikeable and walkable. I guess Daventry could go back to Key/Lewis and the area south of the parkway to either Lewis or South County. And maybe something on the west side to LBSS if they could absorb some more kids. Look, we are at WSHS/Irving but we aren't in a zone that would move, we are literally right in the middle of the boundary, so I'm not trying to plead my personal case. But the West Springfield boundary largely makes sense as is. There is just a lot of housing, a good amount of "affordable for the area" apartments and town houses. It's compact and all has the same mixed culture, government-type worker, military family, vibe. I think it would be a shame to mess it up.

I recognize that the current WSHS boundaries are relatively compact. However, the enrollment imbalance between WSHS and Lewis trumps that. We certainly shouldn't be allocating more money to expand WSHS again any time soon, and Lewis needs more students to thrive.

You WANT Lewis to have more kids, so advocate with the people there to not transfer.

Exactly.

Start with the 230 kids zoned for Lewis who currently transfer to other schools.

They transfer because Lewis doesn’t offer the classes that students want. There’s no guarantee that adding back those 230 kids would improve course availability or extracurricular activities at Lewis. Many more than 230 students would be needed for Lewis to compete with neighboring schools. Around 20 years ago, there wasn’t such disparity among schools. We need to correct and rebalance the schools, however that happens.

But you are advocating for the schools board to transfer in 200 West Springfield High School kids to replace the 200 Lewis zoned kids who live in that zone and are transferring to other high schools.

Don't you see the idiocy of this idea?

Start by closing the loophole that allows 230 plus Lewis kids to transfer to other schools. See how that works for a couple of years.

If that doesn't work, then look at other options.

Those 230 Lewis students attending other schools should absolutely be the first step.

Rezoning should be the absolute last option.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the projections for WS? I thought while this current cohort of HS kids was large, the current ES cohort was smaller than typical.

You are correct.

Once the current class of 2026 graduates, all the subsequent classes go down in size significantly.

2026 is well over 700 students. 2025 and 2024 are in the mkd to upper 600s.

Every class after 2026 is in the low 600s.

WSHS will self correct without a boundary adjustment once 2026 graduates, based on all the numbers in the middle school and elementary classes zoned for WSHS.

However, there are many out of zone kids attending WSHS usiing other addresses.

WSHS needs to do a residency check before sny rezoning occurs.

The current numbers at Irving don’t align with this. Nice try.

j

Yes they do current 8th grade is 601 current 7th is 571

So let's parse this. The current enrollment at Irving (1217 as of the start of the 2023-24 school year) is the second-highest enrollment at Irving of any year since 2014-15. In addition to those students, there are 117 Irving kids who transferred out to other schools this year, including over 100 to Lake Braddock, and students who may attend West Springfield after attending K-8 parochial schools.

In comparison, Lewis is projected to have 1423 students by 2028-29. So even if West Springfield only had 2600 kids in 2028, rather than the 2925 students that FCPS is now projecting, there would still be a huge disparity between the two schools in terms of enrollment and opportunities. There's no other combination in FCPS of nearby high schools where the current and projected contrast in enrollment and opportunities is so glaring.

If you know the area at all, though, you'd know it's just not that simple to redraw Irving/WSHS boundaries. The boundary is not weirdly gerrymandered to keep kids out of Lewis. Except for that one neighborhood south of the parkway, the boundary makes sense. The neighborhoods closest to Lewis, that sort of northeast section, walks to Irving and is very close to West Springfield. Easily bikeable and walkable. I guess Daventry could go back to Key/Lewis and the area south of the parkway to either Lewis or South County. And maybe something on the west side to LBSS if they could absorb some more kids. Look, we are at WSHS/Irving but we aren't in a zone that would move, we are literally right in the middle of the boundary, so I'm not trying to plead my personal case. But the West Springfield boundary largely makes sense as is. There is just a lot of housing, a good amount of "affordable for the area" apartments and town houses. It's compact and all has the same mixed culture, government-type worker, military family, vibe. I think it would be a shame to mess it up.

I recognize that the current WSHS boundaries are relatively compact. However, the enrollment imbalance between WSHS and Lewis trumps that. We certainly shouldn't be allocating more money to expand WSHS again any time soon, and Lewis needs more students to thrive.

West Springfield has space to accomodate a few hundred more kids.

Right, so why the “overcapacity” talk? If there are extra classrooms, they can be used with kids in them.

The design capacity is 2505. It currently has 2725 students, so by definition it is overcapacity. Just the facts.

There is empty class space available still, even at the current levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a posted timeline for when they’ll get to the stage of actually proposing boundary changes? Wondering if we’re all going to have to continue speculating for years or months.

No. First dates anyone has thrown out are from McDaniels email this week. Implemented by fall of 2025 or fall of 2026. No interim dates.

[Anonymous]

Lewis has already closed one loophole for transferring by converting to AP. Language would be another loophole, but FCPS is offering more online and Academy language classes, so it might be harder to make the case to transfer that way.

Regarding boundaries, proximity isn't a sure case for what school you're zoned for. Saratoga is closer to South County and West Springfield, yet gets bussed to Lewis. The Daventry community is a faster drive to Lewis than the Saratoga community.

[Anonymous]

In case anyone needs contact info for some of the key SB members (from FCPS website).

Karl Frisch
e-mail - www.fcps.edu/submit-question-karl-frisch
phone # [phone]

Robyn Lady
e-mail - [e-mail]
phone # [phone]

Kyle McDaniel
e-mail - www.fcps.edu/submit-question-kyle-mcdaniel
phone # [phone]

Feel free to add any to the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lewis has already closed one loophole for transferring by converting to AP. Language would be another loophole, but FCPS is offering more online and Academy language classes, so it might be harder to make the case to transfer that way.

Regarding boundaries, proximity isn't a sure case for what school you're zoned for. Saratoga is closer to South County and West Springfield, yet gets bussed to Lewis. The Daventry community is a faster drive to Lewis than the Saratoga community.

Online classes should not be a justification to keep a kid in a failing school.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the projections for WS? I thought while this current cohort of HS kids was large, the current ES cohort was smaller than typical.

You are correct.

Once the current class of 2026 graduates, all the subsequent classes go down in size significantly.

2026 is well over 700 students. 2025 and 2024 are in the mkd to upper 600s.

Every class after 2026 is in the low 600s.

WSHS will self correct without a boundary adjustment once 2026 graduates, based on all the numbers in the middle school and elementary classes zoned for WSHS.

However, there are many out of zone kids attending WSHS usiing other addresses.

WSHS needs to do a residency check before sny rezoning occurs.

The current numbers at Irving don’t align with this. Nice try.

j

Yes they do current 8th grade is 601 current 7th is 571

So let's parse this. The current enrollment at Irving (1217 as of the start of the 2023-24 school year) is the second-highest enrollment at Irving of any year since 2014-15. In addition to those students, there are 117 Irving kids who transferred out to other schools this year, including over 100 to Lake Braddock, and students who may attend West Springfield after attending K-8 parochial schools.

In comparison, Lewis is projected to have 1423 students by 2028-29. So even if West Springfield only had 2600 kids in 2028, rather than the 2925 students that FCPS is now projecting, there would still be a huge disparity between the two schools in terms of enrollment and opportunities. There's no other combination in FCPS of nearby high schools where the current and projected contrast in enrollment and opportunities is so glaring.

If you know the area at all, though, you'd know it's just not that simple to redraw Irving/WSHS boundaries. The boundary is not weirdly gerrymandered to keep kids out of Lewis. Except for that one neighborhood south of the parkway, the boundary makes sense. The neighborhoods closest to Lewis, that sort of northeast section, walks to Irving and is very close to West Springfield. Easily bikeable and walkable. I guess Daventry could go back to Key/Lewis and the area south of the parkway to either Lewis or South County. And maybe something on the west side to LBSS if they could absorb some more kids. Look, we are at WSHS/Irving but we aren't in a zone that would move, we are literally right in the middle of the boundary, so I'm not trying to plead my personal case. But the West Springfield boundary largely makes sense as is. There is just a lot of housing, a good amount of "affordable for the area" apartments and town houses. It's compact and all has the same mixed culture, government-type worker, military family, vibe. I think it would be a shame to mess it up.

I recognize that the current WSHS boundaries are relatively compact. However, the enrollment imbalance between WSHS and Lewis trumps that. We certainly shouldn't be allocating more money to expand WSHS again any time soon, and Lewis needs more students to thrive.

You WANT Lewis to have more kids, so advocate with the people there to not transfer.

Exactly.

Start with the 230 kids zoned for Lewis who currently transfer to other schools.

They transfer because Lewis doesn’t offer the classes that students want. There’s no guarantee that adding back those 230 kids would improve course availability or extracurricular activities at Lewis. Many more than 230 students would be needed for Lewis to compete with neighboring schools. Around 20 years ago, there wasn’t such disparity among schools. We need to correct and rebalance the schools, however that happens.

But you are advocating for the schools board to transfer in 200 West Springfield High School kids to replace the 200 Lewis zoned kids who live in that zone and are transferring to other high schools.

Don't you see the idiocy of this idea?

Start by closing the loophole that allows 230 plus Lewis kids to transfer to other schools. See how that works for a couple of years.

If that doesn't work, then look at other options.

Those 230 Lewis students attending other schools should absolutely be the first step.

Rezoning should be the absolute last option.

Since FCPS does not offer the same classes at each HS, students should absolutely be given the opportunity to transfer to the school that offers their desired courses. To stop transfers would be unconscionable.

[Anonymous]

The biggest INequity in FCPS is allowing AAP kids to choose which school they'd like to attend. This needs to stop. The center model needs to end. How on earth is it fair to give some kids options that other kids aren't given?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look it’s a done deal. They’re going to send those HV kids to Lewis. Stop complaining none of the school board members care what you say. Fixing Lewis is past due and if it means we have to sacrifice a few of your little white snowflakes to the cause, then so be it. They will be fine.

Could you please explain how sending some white kids to Lewis will "fix" the school's issues? We'll wait.