FCPS HS Boundary

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Anonymous wrote:I live near Gambrills and I can’t even believe going to WSHS is 15 mins. Shorter, in my estimation.

15 minutes is the morning with traffic.

The 2 posters not from the area arguing that the commutes are the same do not understand the commutes.

From the Hunt Valley neighborhoods inside the pkwy, commuting with traffic to WSHS is around 7 minutes, and maybe 5 minutes during down time. Kids actually walk from the HV neighborhoods to WSHS when the weather is nice.

The Gambrill people get to WSHS in under 15 minutes when the traffic is bad, and around 10 minutes otherwise.

HV to Lewis is 20 minutes during slow times, evenings and Saturday afternoons. It is much longer during rush hour.

Literally on Google Maps right now:

Gambrill and the Parkway to Lewis via the Parkway - 8 minutes (4.4 miles)
Gambrill and the Parkway to WS via Sydenstricker and Hillside - 10 minutes (4.1 miles)

Sure, during rush hour traffic will be heavier, but since Covid and telework the traffic on the Parkway to Springfield has not been bad at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear Hunt Valley Parents south of FFX county parkway: As a result of updating policy 8130 to prioritize transportation and reduce travel times, your children will now travel a longer, more dangerous route to Key Middle and Lewis HS. The SB promises this boundary change will provide improved transportation and a better educational experience for all.
P.S. Please ensure you teach your high schoolers defensive driving maneuvers to avoid erratic Maryland drivers making last second changes out of the FFX County Parkway/Gambrill exit only lane.

+1 as a resident of this area, oh but it’s “ToO CoMpLiCaTeD” according to an equity troll who clearly has no idea about the area, to eliminate the Sangster split feeder and send all its kids to Lake Braddock, thus reducing enrollment at Irving and WSHS.

Sorry, maybe I missed it in your weird post but, how exactly does this help Lewis? This might help balance once side of the equation but not the other, and both are needed, ASAP.

It doesn’t and I’m not understanding why everything has to be to “help Lewis.” You can fix some of the (actually fairly slight) crowding at WSHS without shuttling kids down the parkway and actually giving them a longer school commute.

Ensuring that Lewis has a sufficiently large enrollment to support the activities and opportunities available at other high schools ought to be the only boundary change FCPS is currently treating as a priority. Everything else is just noise intended to cancel out the parents who’ll complain if moved to Lewis.

If 230 kids are transferring out of Lewis currently, you will have 500 kids transferring out of Lewis following rezoning.

Almost all of the kids in the fringe neighborhoods take German...

And what makes you think they won't add German to Lewis? Or go Nuclear and remove it from WSHS, lol.

What is wrong with you.

Such mirth over jacking around people's kids.

Do you know any high school teens?

To rezone kids in high school over politics is awful.

To take glee over it is vindictive and cruel.

Kids will be grandfathered. Duh.

They can promise to grandfather and it still would enough. This is about protecting THEIR property values and THEIR kids. It’s selfish AF and I for one am happy that the SB is finally taking corrective action to address these longstanding issues.

People paid $100,000 or more on their houses to buy in the WSHS zone.

Older people in the neighborhood have worked hard to support WSHS to help keep the school strong to keep up their property values. There is very robust retiree and empty nester support in the WSHS zone for the schools.

To callously wipe out hundreds of thousands of dollars in hard earned equity overnight, by an unnecessary, vindictive rezoning is criminal.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear Hunt Valley Parents south of FFX county parkway: As a result of updating policy 8130 to prioritize transportation and reduce travel times, your children will now travel a longer, more dangerous route to Key Middle and Lewis HS. The SB promises this boundary change will provide improved transportation and a better educational experience for all.
P.S. Please ensure you teach your high schoolers defensive driving maneuvers to avoid erratic Maryland drivers making last second changes out of the FFX County Parkway/Gambrill exit only lane.

+1 as a resident of this area, oh but it’s “ToO CoMpLiCaTeD” according to an equity troll who clearly has no idea about the area, to eliminate the Sangster split feeder and send all its kids to Lake Braddock, thus reducing enrollment at Irving and WSHS.

Sorry, maybe I missed it in your weird post but, how exactly does this help Lewis? This might help balance once side of the equation but not the other, and both are needed, ASAP.

It doesn’t and I’m not understanding why everything has to be to “help Lewis.” You can fix some of the (actually fairly slight) crowding at WSHS without shuttling kids down the parkway and actually giving them a longer school commute.

Ensuring that Lewis has a sufficiently large enrollment to support the activities and opportunities available at other high schools ought to be the only boundary change FCPS is currently treating as a priority. Everything else is just noise intended to cancel out the parents who’ll complain if moved to Lewis.

If 230 kids are transferring out of Lewis currently, you will have 500 kids transferring out of Lewis following rezoning.

Almost all of the kids in the fringe neighborhoods take German...

And what makes you think they won't add German to Lewis? Or go Nuclear and remove it from WSHS, lol.

What is wrong with you.

Such mirth over jacking around people's kids.

Do you know any high school teens?

To rezone kids in high school over politics is awful.

To take glee over it is vindictive and cruel.

Kids will be grandfathered. Duh.

They can promise to grandfather and it still would enough. This is about protecting THEIR property values and THEIR kids. It’s selfish AF and I for one am happy that the SB is finally taking corrective action to address these longstanding issues.

People paid $100,000 or more on their houses to buy in the WSHS zone.

Older people in the neighborhood have worked hard to support WSHS to help keep the school strong to keep up their property values. There is very robust retiree and empty nester support in the WSHS zone for the schools.

To callously wipe out hundreds of thousands of dollars in hard earned equity overnight, by an unnecessary, vindictive rezoning is criminal.

Please contact your SB members to let them know your thoughts.

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Anonymous wrote:The section of the county parkway between Gambrill and the parkway split has a lot of accidents, sometimes fatal and severe. I wouldn’t want any more buses than absolutely necessary on that stretch of road. I’m assuming if the Gambrill neighborhoods were bussed to Lewis that they would need to take the parkway all the way to Frontier by the mall and then to Franconia Road. That is a busy and unpredictable drive at 7-8 am.

And yes, I know kids living in West Bramblef*** Clifton and Great Falls have forever long bus rides but that’s because nothing is out there. Springfield and West Springfield aren’t like that at all.

That is a rough stretch to add a bunch of teen drivers and busses to.

The Gambrill kids avoid that area altogether by taking back roads to WSHS.

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Anonymous wrote:I live near Gambrills and I can’t even believe going to WSHS is 15 mins. Shorter, in my estimation.

15 minutes is the morning with traffic.

The 2 posters not from the area arguing that the commutes are the same do not understand the commutes.

From the Hunt Valley neighborhoods inside the pkwy, commuting with traffic to WSHS is around 7 minutes, and maybe 5 minutes during down time. Kids actually walk from the HV neighborhoods to WSHS when the weather is nice.

The Gambrill people get to WSHS in under 15 minutes when the traffic is bad, and around 10 minutes otherwise.

HV to Lewis is 20 minutes during slow times, evenings and Saturday afternoons. It is much longer during rush hour.

Literally on Google Maps right now:

Gambrill and the Parkway to Lewis via the Parkway - 8 minutes (4.4 miles)
Gambrill and the Parkway to WS via Sydenstricker and Hillside - 10 minutes (4.1 miles)

Sure, during rush hour traffic will be heavier, but since Covid and telework the traffic on the Parkway to Springfield has not been bad at all.

You don't know the area if you are using google maps to argue your point.

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Anonymous wrote:The imperative to move kids to Lewis is based on both its current and projected enrollments. There is no other high school in FCPS projected to have 1425 kids adjacent to one projected to have 2900 students. There is a compelling case to change those boundaries if FCPS wants to have any argument that it’s a system that cares about equal opportunity.

The fact that the West Springfield parents are coming up with such frivolous arguments as to why the boundaries shouldn’t be adjusted is precisely why they must be.

1425 is still larger than most of the Catholic high schools which have very robust academic offerings, aports and clubs.

In fact, many would see that as an ideal sized high school, on par with many private schools.

No one is asking to leave WSHS.

And the school is not 2900 students.

Quit making up lies.
In that case the WS parents should be even happier to escape a 2900-student school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The section of the county parkway between Gambrill and the parkway split has a lot of accidents, sometimes fatal and severe. I wouldn’t want any more buses than absolutely necessary on that stretch of road. I’m assuming if the Gambrill neighborhoods were bussed to Lewis that they would need to take the parkway all the way to Frontier by the mall and then to Franconia Road. That is a busy and unpredictable drive at 7-8 am.

And yes, I know kids living in West Bramblef*** Clifton and Great Falls have forever long bus rides but that’s because nothing is out there. Springfield and West Springfield aren’t like that at all.

That is a rough stretch to add a bunch of teen drivers and busses to.

The Gambrill kids avoid that area altogether by taking back roads to WSHS.

If a few kids die in the name of equity, it’ll be worth it. Right, Karl Frisch and Kyle McDaniel?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live near Gambrills and I can’t even believe going to WSHS is 15 mins. Shorter, in my estimation.

15 minutes is the morning with traffic.

The 2 posters not from the area arguing that the commutes are the same do not understand the commutes.

From the Hunt Valley neighborhoods inside the pkwy, commuting with traffic to WSHS is around 7 minutes, and maybe 5 minutes during down time. Kids actually walk from the HV neighborhoods to WSHS when the weather is nice.

The Gambrill people get to WSHS in under 15 minutes when the traffic is bad, and around 10 minutes otherwise.

HV to Lewis is 20 minutes during slow times, evenings and Saturday afternoons. It is much longer during rush hour.

Literally on Google Maps right now:

Gambrill and the Parkway to Lewis via the Parkway - 8 minutes (4.4 miles)
Gambrill and the Parkway to WS via Sydenstricker and Hillside - 10 minutes (4.1 miles)

Sure, during rush hour traffic will be heavier, but since Covid and telework the traffic on the Parkway to Springfield has not been bad at all.

You don't know the area if you are using google maps to argue your point.

Or is my point to accurate to counter? Look, if you want to stop the redistricting of some HV students to Lewis, I would not march in there counting on the commute distance. It is trivial when compared across the county.

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Anonymous wrote:Gambrill to Lewis is not a long commute. Gambrill to WSHS is very similar. They are both still shorter than many kids in FCPS.

Gambrill to SCHS is about 3 miles, whereas to Lewis, it is about 6 miles. SCHS is currently under capacity by a similar percentage as Lewis.

True.

Lewis is the longest commute of the 4 schools.

WSHS is the fastest.

SoCo is a little longer.

Lewis is the longest by a lot, and involves crossing the worst rush hour traffic spot in that part of northern Virginia.

This is simply not the case. Check Google maps. Yes, probably a little longer to Lewis, but many children in FCPS have much longer trips. Fringe Great Falls, parts of Mason Neck, Lake Braddock, Robinson. Some small difference in distance or time is not going to sway the board.

That being said, there are some conflicting goals in their policies - split feeders being the biggest one. Hard to see them sending all of Hunt Valley to Lewis and it doesn't make sense to send the South Hunt Valley children to Saratoga Elementary to solve the split that way. So if they send South Hunt Valley to Lewis that will bring back an old split feeder.

You are not from the area.

Lewis is a twice as long commute than WSHS or SoCo.

The road types and traffic patterns to get to each school are completely different.

I have lived here for years and years and years. You are simply in denial. Yes, it is a bit longer to Lewis, but not any type of difference that would sway the School Board.

All of that said, in the end they will not end up moving any of WS to Lewis. They just won't do it. They will come up with some other wild-eyed scheme they think will help - but it won't.

If they do not move kids to Lewis but they make other HS boundary changes they are inviting litigation they will likely lose. They have a lot of flexibility but at some point it becomes arbitrary and capricious to change some HS boundaries but not others simply because they don’t want to piss off the noisiest parents.

Lol no they aren’t “inviting litigation,” that’s crazy talk. There is more development slated in Springfield. Lewis and its feeders will (eventually) be fine in terms of enrollment if all the Springfield development comes to happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear Hunt Valley Parents south of FFX county parkway: As a result of updating policy 8130 to prioritize transportation and reduce travel times, your children will now travel a longer, more dangerous route to Key Middle and Lewis HS. The SB promises this boundary change will provide improved transportation and a better educational experience for all.
P.S. Please ensure you teach your high schoolers defensive driving maneuvers to avoid erratic Maryland drivers making last second changes out of the FFX County Parkway/Gambrill exit only lane.

+1 as a resident of this area, oh but it’s “ToO CoMpLiCaTeD” according to an equity troll who clearly has no idea about the area, to eliminate the Sangster split feeder and send all its kids to Lake Braddock, thus reducing enrollment at Irving and WSHS.

Sorry, maybe I missed it in your weird post but, how exactly does this help Lewis? This might help balance once side of the equation but not the other, and both are needed, ASAP.

It doesn’t and I’m not understanding why everything has to be to “help Lewis.” You can fix some of the (actually fairly slight) crowding at WSHS without shuttling kids down the parkway and actually giving them a longer school commute.

Ensuring that Lewis has a sufficiently large enrollment to support the activities and opportunities available at other high schools ought to be the only boundary change FCPS is currently treating as a priority. Everything else is just noise intended to cancel out the parents who’ll complain if moved to Lewis.

If 230 kids are transferring out of Lewis currently, you will have 500 kids transferring out of Lewis following rezoning.

Almost all of the kids in the fringe neighborhoods take German...

And what makes you think they won't add German to Lewis? Or go Nuclear and remove it from WSHS, lol.

What is wrong with you.

Such mirth over jacking around people's kids.

Do you know any high school teens?

To rezone kids in high school over politics is awful.

To take glee over it is vindictive and cruel.

Kids will be grandfathered. Duh.

They can promise to grandfather and it still would enough. This is about protecting THEIR property values and THEIR kids. It’s selfish AF and I for one am happy that the SB is finally taking corrective action to address these longstanding issues.

People paid $100,000 or more on their houses to buy in the WSHS zone.

Older people in the neighborhood have worked hard to support WSHS to help keep the school strong to keep up their property values. There is very robust retiree and empty nester support in the WSHS zone for the schools.

To callously wipe out hundreds of thousands of dollars in hard earned equity overnight, by an unnecessary, vindictive rezoning is criminal.

The changes are not unnecessary or vindictive, but go off!

Also, a reminder, your home does not guarantee you the right to a specific boundary in perpetuity. Those retirees you mentioned would do well to sell their homes and move if property values are of concern.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The section of the county parkway between Gambrill and the parkway split has a lot of accidents, sometimes fatal and severe. I wouldn’t want any more buses than absolutely necessary on that stretch of road. I’m assuming if the Gambrill neighborhoods were bussed to Lewis that they would need to take the parkway all the way to Frontier by the mall and then to Franconia Road. That is a busy and unpredictable drive at 7-8 am.

And yes, I know kids living in West Bramblef*** Clifton and Great Falls have forever long bus rides but that’s because nothing is out there. Springfield and West Springfield aren’t like that at all.

That is a rough stretch to add a bunch of teen drivers and busses to.

The Gambrill kids avoid that area altogether by taking back roads to WSHS.

If they wanted to avoid the parkway that would mean heading up I guess Sydenstricker to Huntsman to Old Keene and THAT is its own hot mess with a ton of traffic lights. They’d have to do it this way because if they took Rolling up to Old Keene/Franconia, they would still be on the worst sections of the parkway and would then be stuck in the Rolling Road widening project traffic.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear Hunt Valley Parents south of FFX county parkway: As a result of updating policy 8130 to prioritize transportation and reduce travel times, your children will now travel a longer, more dangerous route to Key Middle and Lewis HS. The SB promises this boundary change will provide improved transportation and a better educational experience for all.
P.S. Please ensure you teach your high schoolers defensive driving maneuvers to avoid erratic Maryland drivers making last second changes out of the FFX County Parkway/Gambrill exit only lane.

+1 as a resident of this area, oh but it’s “ToO CoMpLiCaTeD” according to an equity troll who clearly has no idea about the area, to eliminate the Sangster split feeder and send all its kids to Lake Braddock, thus reducing enrollment at Irving and WSHS.

Sorry, maybe I missed it in your weird post but, how exactly does this help Lewis? This might help balance once side of the equation but not the other, and both are needed, ASAP.

It doesn’t and I’m not understanding why everything has to be to “help Lewis.” You can fix some of the (actually fairly slight) crowding at WSHS without shuttling kids down the parkway and actually giving them a longer school commute.

Ensuring that Lewis has a sufficiently large enrollment to support the activities and opportunities available at other high schools ought to be the only boundary change FCPS is currently treating as a priority. Everything else is just noise intended to cancel out the parents who’ll complain if moved to Lewis.

If 230 kids are transferring out of Lewis currently, you will have 500 kids transferring out of Lewis following rezoning.

Almost all of the kids in the fringe neighborhoods take German...

And what makes you think they won't add German to Lewis? Or go Nuclear and remove it from WSHS, lol.

What is wrong with you.

Such mirth over jacking around people's kids.

Do you know any high school teens?

To rezone kids in high school over politics is awful.

To take glee over it is vindictive and cruel.

Kids will be grandfathered. Duh.

They can promise to grandfather and it still would enough. This is about protecting THEIR property values and THEIR kids. It’s selfish AF and I for one am happy that the SB is finally taking corrective action to address these longstanding issues.

People paid $100,000 or more on their houses to buy in the WSHS zone.

Older people in the neighborhood have worked hard to support WSHS to help keep the school strong to keep up their property values. There is very robust retiree and empty nester support in the WSHS zone for the schools.

To callously wipe out hundreds of thousands of dollars in hard earned equity overnight, by an unnecessary, vindictive rezoning is criminal.

The changes are not unnecessary or vindictive, but go off!

Also, a reminder, your home does not guarantee you the right to a specific boundary in perpetuity. Those retirees you mentioned would do well to sell their homes and move if property values are of concern.

DP. You really need to learn how politics and government work. You pretend that they have a mandate to do whatever the F they want.

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Anonymous wrote:Gambrill to Lewis is not a long commute. Gambrill to WSHS is very similar. They are both still shorter than many kids in FCPS.

Gambrill to SCHS is about 3 miles, whereas to Lewis, it is about 6 miles. SCHS is currently under capacity by a similar percentage as Lewis.

True.

Lewis is the longest commute of the 4 schools.

WSHS is the fastest.

SoCo is a little longer.

Lewis is the longest by a lot, and involves crossing the worst rush hour traffic spot in that part of northern Virginia.

This is simply not the case. Check Google maps. Yes, probably a little longer to Lewis, but many children in FCPS have much longer trips. Fringe Great Falls, parts of Mason Neck, Lake Braddock, Robinson. Some small difference in distance or time is not going to sway the board.

That being said, there are some conflicting goals in their policies - split feeders being the biggest one. Hard to see them sending all of Hunt Valley to Lewis and it doesn't make sense to send the South Hunt Valley children to Saratoga Elementary to solve the split that way. So if they send South Hunt Valley to Lewis that will bring back an old split feeder.

You are not from the area.

Lewis is a twice as long commute than WSHS or SoCo.

The road types and traffic patterns to get to each school are completely different.

I have lived here for years and years and years. You are simply in denial. Yes, it is a bit longer to Lewis, but not any type of difference that would sway the School Board.

All of that said, in the end they will not end up moving any of WS to Lewis. They just won't do it. They will come up with some other wild-eyed scheme they think will help - but it won't.

If they do not move kids to Lewis but they make other HS boundary changes they are inviting litigation they will likely lose. They have a lot of flexibility but at some point it becomes arbitrary and capricious to change some HS boundaries but not others simply because they don’t want to piss off the noisiest parents.

Lol no they aren’t “inviting litigation,” that’s crazy talk. There is more development slated in Springfield. Lewis and its feeders will (eventually) be fine in terms of enrollment if all the Springfield development comes to happen.

I agree legal action would probably not work in either direction (for or against redistricting). The School Board has that responsibility. But also, the projections for Lewis do show a drop off in enrollment and the currently in works apartments will not make a dent in the student numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:Gambrill to Lewis is not a long commute. Gambrill to WSHS is very similar. They are both still shorter than many kids in FCPS.

Gambrill to SCHS is about 3 miles, whereas to Lewis, it is about 6 miles. SCHS is currently under capacity by a similar percentage as Lewis.

True.

Lewis is the longest commute of the 4 schools.

WSHS is the fastest.

SoCo is a little longer.

Lewis is the longest by a lot, and involves crossing the worst rush hour traffic spot in that part of northern Virginia.

This is simply not the case. Check Google maps. Yes, probably a little longer to Lewis, but many children in FCPS have much longer trips. Fringe Great Falls, parts of Mason Neck, Lake Braddock, Robinson. Some small difference in distance or time is not going to sway the board.

That being said, there are some conflicting goals in their policies - split feeders being the biggest one. Hard to see them sending all of Hunt Valley to Lewis and it doesn't make sense to send the South Hunt Valley children to Saratoga Elementary to solve the split that way. So if they send South Hunt Valley to Lewis that will bring back an old split feeder.

You are not from the area.

Lewis is a twice as long commute than WSHS or SoCo.

The road types and traffic patterns to get to each school are completely different.

I have lived here for years and years and years. You are simply in denial. Yes, it is a bit longer to Lewis, but not any type of difference that would sway the School Board.

All of that said, in the end they will not end up moving any of WS to Lewis. They just won't do it. They will come up with some other wild-eyed scheme they think will help - but it won't.

If they do not move kids to Lewis but they make other HS boundary changes they are inviting litigation they will likely lose. They have a lot of flexibility but at some point it becomes arbitrary and capricious to change some HS boundaries but not others simply because they don’t want to piss off the noisiest parents.

Lol no they aren’t “inviting litigation,” that’s crazy talk. There is more development slated in Springfield. Lewis and its feeders will (eventually) be fine in terms of enrollment if all the Springfield development comes to happen.

I agree legal action would probably not work in either direction (for or against redistricting). The School Board has that responsibility. But also, the projections for Lewis do show a drop off in enrollment and the currently in works apartments will not make a dent in the student numbers.

John Roberts would like a word. Equity proclamations are stamped all over this process through public meetings and statements. The draft currently incorporates one Fairfax by reference.

They have a lot of exposure here, and rightfully so.

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Anonymous wrote:Gambrill to Lewis is not a long commute. Gambrill to WSHS is very similar. They are both still shorter than many kids in FCPS.

Gambrill to SCHS is about 3 miles, whereas to Lewis, it is about 6 miles. SCHS is currently under capacity by a similar percentage as Lewis.

True.

Lewis is the longest commute of the 4 schools.

WSHS is the fastest.

SoCo is a little longer.

Lewis is the longest by a lot, and involves crossing the worst rush hour traffic spot in that part of northern Virginia.

This is simply not the case. Check Google maps. Yes, probably a little longer to Lewis, but many children in FCPS have much longer trips. Fringe Great Falls, parts of Mason Neck, Lake Braddock, Robinson. Some small difference in distance or time is not going to sway the board.

That being said, there are some conflicting goals in their policies - split feeders being the biggest one. Hard to see them sending all of Hunt Valley to Lewis and it doesn't make sense to send the South Hunt Valley children to Saratoga Elementary to solve the split that way. So if they send South Hunt Valley to Lewis that will bring back an old split feeder.

You are not from the area.

Lewis is a twice as long commute than WSHS or SoCo.

The road types and traffic patterns to get to each school are completely different.

I have lived here for years and years and years. You are simply in denial. Yes, it is a bit longer to Lewis, but not any type of difference that would sway the School Board.

All of that said, in the end they will not end up moving any of WS to Lewis. They just won't do it. They will come up with some other wild-eyed scheme they think will help - but it won't.

If they do not move kids to Lewis but they make other HS boundary changes they are inviting litigation they will likely lose. They have a lot of flexibility but at some point it becomes arbitrary and capricious to change some HS boundaries but not others simply because they don’t want to piss off the noisiest parents.

Lol no they aren’t “inviting litigation,” that’s crazy talk. There is more development slated in Springfield. Lewis and its feeders will (eventually) be fine in terms of enrollment if all the Springfield development comes to happen.

I agree legal action would probably not work in either direction (for or against redistricting). The School Board has that responsibility. But also, the projections for Lewis do show a drop off in enrollment and the currently in works apartments will not make a dent in the student numbers.

Their projections are off IMO. They also don’t account for the development currently slated in areas zoned for Edison, which has basically no room for expansion on its current site. The old Top Golf site, last I checked, was set to get not a bunch of 1-2 bedroom apartments, but townhomes where families would live.