FCPS HS Boundary

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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.

If they mention race anywhere, then yes, they open tgemselves to lawsuits.

They won’t mention race because it’s not about race. It’s about balancing enrollment and SES to improve educational opportunities.

Isn't One Fairfax solely about race?

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the empathy for high performing students in the Lewis pyramid who have been dealing with and patiently waiting for the board to address our issues for years now? Those parents are clearly not represented on this board, because all I’m hearing from the WSHS parents are

“but my property values” and
“you should have known when you purchased in that pyramid” OR
“just take away their transfer option entirely, that’ll fix it”

I emphasize with parents who are concerned about the impact to their current high schoolers and personally hope that all those students are grandfathered in.

That would be feasible if they just focused on the most glaring disparity in the county, which is between WSHS and Lewis, now. There could be generous grandfathering.

If they change enough boundaries at the same time, just so WSHS can’t complain that it’s being singled out, the more generous grandfathering becomes logistically impossible and they’ll be forced to move kids already at their existing schools.

And, yes, continue to strengthen Lewis for kids with both higher and lesser academic aspirations. The condescending WSHS posters who act like no one at Lewis has high academic goals haven’t a clue.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the empathy for high performing students in the Lewis pyramid who have been dealing with and patiently waiting for the board to address our issues for years now? Those parents are clearly not represented on this board, because all I’m hearing from the WSHS parents are

“but my property values” and
“you should have known when you purchased in that pyramid” OR
“just take away their transfer option entirely, that’ll fix it”

I emphasize with parents who are concerned about the impact to their current high schoolers and personally hope that all those students are grandfathered in.

As has been mentioned several times by WSHS posters. Turn Lewis into a trade school/community center. See arlington’s investment in the career center site or Alexandria city’s new VA tech hybrid program as options with Mason. The placement of the school and traffic patterns are making it obsolete. We have empathy for you and your kids as well as the other students at Lewis. Turn it into a forestry/landscaping (with accotink park nearby, dental school with NOVA medical campus down the street and early childhood career center. Or even culinary center with the mall restaurants.

Wow so all of this just to avoid rezoning a few additional kids there?

And I guess we should also be okay with waiting a few more years for all this to come to fruition?

Got it.

Omg “a few additional kids” isn’t going to do anything for Lewis. They’d have to give them 1-2 additional feeder ES at this point. Which would only happen after the entire boundary study was completed, since the boundary policy only allows for 15% of the school’s population to be rezoned without a public hearing.

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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.

If they mention race anywhere, then yes, they open tgemselves to lawsuits.

They won’t mention race because it’s not about race. It’s about balancing enrollment and SES to improve educational opportunities.

Isn't One Fairfax solely about race?

It is about equity, which is basically about race.

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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.

Please give it a rest! The SB is hearing from everyone, on both sides of this side.

Please- they are the ones provoking this. They are green and dumb. I’m sorry you as their staff person has to deal with this, but talk to your boss.

Please, go touch grass today. This can’t be good for your mental health.

Anyone else notice SJW frequently comes on here and rapid fire posts in an attempt to seem more mainstream and relevant?

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the empathy for high performing students in the Lewis pyramid who have been dealing with and patiently waiting for the board to address our issues for years now? Those parents are clearly not represented on this board, because all I’m hearing from the WSHS parents are

“but my property values” and
“you should have known when you purchased in that pyramid” OR
“just take away their transfer option entirely, that’ll fix it”

I emphasize with parents who are concerned about the impact to their current high schoolers and personally hope that all those students are grandfathered in.

As has been mentioned several times by WSHS posters. Turn Lewis into a trade school/community center. See arlington’s investment in the career center site or Alexandria city’s new VA tech hybrid program as options with Mason. The placement of the school and traffic patterns are making it obsolete. We have empathy for you and your kids as well as the other students at Lewis. Turn it into a forestry/landscaping (with accotink park nearby, dental school with NOVA medical campus down the street and early childhood career center. Or even culinary center with the mall restaurants.

Wow so all of this just to avoid rezoning a few additional kids there?

And I guess we should also be okay with waiting a few more years for all this to come to fruition?

Got it.

Omg “a few additional kids” isn’t going to do anything for Lewis. They’d have to give them 1-2 additional feeder ES at this point. Which would only happen after the entire boundary study was completed, since the boundary policy only allows for 15% of the school’s population to be rezoned without a public hearing.

That hearing is going to go great.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the empathy for high performing students in the Lewis pyramid who have been dealing with and patiently waiting for the board to address our issues for years now? Those parents are clearly not represented on this board, because all I’m hearing from the WSHS parents are

“but my property values” and
“you should have known when you purchased in that pyramid” OR
“just take away their transfer option entirely, that’ll fix it”

I emphasize with parents who are concerned about the impact to their current high schoolers and personally hope that all those students are grandfathered in.

As has been mentioned several times by WSHS posters. Turn Lewis into a trade school/community center. See arlington’s investment in the career center site or Alexandria city’s new VA tech hybrid program as options with Mason. The placement of the school and traffic patterns are making it obsolete. We have empathy for you and your kids as well as the other students at Lewis. Turn it into a forestry/landscaping (with accotink park nearby, dental school with NOVA medical campus down the street and early childhood career center. Or even culinary center with the mall restaurants.

Wow so all of this just to avoid rezoning a few additional kids there?

And I guess we should also be okay with waiting a few more years for all this to come to fruition?

Got it.

Omg “a few additional kids” isn’t going to do anything for Lewis. They’d have to give them 1-2 additional feeder ES at this point. Which would only happen after the entire boundary study was completed, since the boundary policy only allows for 15% of the school’s population to be rezoned without a public hearing.

Idk it seems like if they tried a combination of things, like adding more AP options and curtailing pupil placement in addition to rezoning a few obvious neighborhoods, that could give the school a helpful start in the right direction.

This does not have to be an all or nothing approach.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the empathy for high performing students in the Lewis pyramid who have been dealing with and patiently waiting for the board to address our issues for years now? Those parents are clearly not represented on this board, because all I’m hearing from the WSHS parents are

“but my property values” and
“you should have known when you purchased in that pyramid” OR
“just take away their transfer option entirely, that’ll fix it”

I emphasize with parents who are concerned about the impact to their current high schoolers and personally hope that all those students are grandfathered in.

The best thing that has been done for high performing students in that pyramid is to allow transfers out. No one wants to send their kids there.

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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.

Please give it a rest! The SB is hearing from everyone, on both sides of this side.

Please- they are the ones provoking this. They are green and dumb. I’m sorry you as their staff person has to deal with this, but talk to your boss.

Please, go touch grass today. This can’t be good for your mental health.

Anyone else notice SJW frequently comes on here and rapid fire posts in an attempt to seem more mainstream and relevant?

What does this even mean lol? I am actively engaged in the discussion just like you are! Trust me, your posts in here and other threads are very obvious as well (that’s how I know you could probably benefit from a break I had to look up SJW because you use it so frequently.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the empathy for high performing students in the Lewis pyramid who have been dealing with and patiently waiting for the board to address our issues for years now? Those parents are clearly not represented on this board, because all I’m hearing from the WSHS parents are

“but my property values” and
“you should have known when you purchased in that pyramid” OR
“just take away their transfer option entirely, that’ll fix it”

I emphasize with parents who are concerned about the impact to their current high schoolers and personally hope that all those students are grandfathered in.

That would be feasible if they just focused on the most glaring disparity in the county, which is between WSHS and Lewis, now. There could be generous grandfathering.

If they change enough boundaries at the same time, just so WSHS can’t complain that it’s being singled out, the more generous grandfathering becomes logistically impossible and they’ll be forced to move kids already at their existing schools.

And, yes, continue to strengthen Lewis for kids with both higher and lesser academic aspirations. The condescending WSHS posters who act like no one at Lewis has high academic goals haven’t a clue.

It is not the WSHS parents saying this.

It is the Lewis parents.

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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.

Please give it a rest! The SB is hearing from everyone, on both sides of this side.

Please- they are the ones provoking this. They are green and dumb. I’m sorry you as their staff person has to deal with this, but talk to your boss.

Please, go touch grass today. This can’t be good for your mental health.

Anyone else notice SJW frequently comes on here and rapid fire posts in an attempt to seem more mainstream and relevant?

What does this even mean lol? I am actively engaged in the discussion just like you are! Trust me, your posts in here and other threads are very obvious as well (that’s how I know you could probably benefit from a break I had to look up SJW because you use it so frequently.

Except you directed that to one of the many other upset parents on this thread. Maybe you are off your sjw game?

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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.

Please give it a rest! The SB is hearing from everyone, on both sides of this side.

No thanks. You know that your one outreach is going to be dwarfed by the outreach across the county from parents who don’t want this.

It’s telling that you don’t want people to communicate their feelings to the board. That shows you know how immensely unpopular this thing actually is.

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Are there any examples of, or research supporting, moving higher performing students to an underperforming school having any measurable impact on [b]individual student outcomes beyond an overall increase in the average of the school's test scores? As a parent, I could possibly get behind something that truly impacts students in a measurably positive way, but I can't get behind propping up a lower performing school if it is just a numbers game in terms of test scores and accreditation.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any examples of, or research supporting, moving higher performing students to an underperforming school having any measurable impact on [b]individual student outcomes beyond an overall increase in the average of the school's test scores? As a parent, I could possibly get behind something that truly impacts students in a measurably positive way, but I can't get behind propping up a lower performing school if it is just a numbers game in terms of test scores and accreditation.

This is purely a play to turn a 50+% farms school into a 40+% farms school.

Just an equity play. Nothing more.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any examples of, or research supporting, moving higher performing students to an underperforming school having any measurable impact on [b]individual student outcomes beyond an overall increase in the average of the school's test scores? As a parent, I could possibly get behind something that truly impacts students in a measurably positive way, but I can't get behind propping up a lower performing school if it is just a numbers game in terms of test scores and accreditation.

This is purely a play to turn a 50+% farms school into a 40+% farms school.

Just an equity play. Nothing more.

It wouldn’t even work as well as you’re saying. Lewis is 62% FARMS. Moving a neighborhood with maybe 50 HS students would make it, in all likelihood, 60% FARMS. What a difference!!!!!