FCPS HS Boundary

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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.

It would absolutely be hilarious negative publicity for this school board.

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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.

I don’t have a problem with people communicating their feelings to the board. I also don’t want to see your stupid “contact the board” posts after every comment that you agree with.

And if you think I’m the only Lewis supporter engaging on this thread, you are sadly mistaken.

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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.

I don’t have a problem with people communicating their feelings to the board. I also don’t want to see your stupid “contact the board” posts after every comment that you agree with.

And if you think I’m the only Lewis supporter engaging on this thread, you are sadly mistaken.

All two of you, lol.

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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.

I don’t have a problem with people communicating their feelings to the board. I also don’t want to see your stupid “contact the board” posts after every comment that you agree with.

And if you think I’m the only Lewis supporter engaging on this thread, you are sadly mistaken.

DP- Contact the school board with your support of this plan.

We are all Lewis supporters, we just disagree with support Lewis vs supporting our kids and the kids at Lewis. Many kids at Lewis have different needs than our kids, we want support for ALL of them as well, not just support of test scores.

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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.

I don’t have a problem with people communicating their feelings to the board. I also don’t want to see your stupid “contact the board” posts after every comment that you agree with.

And if you think I’m the only Lewis supporter engaging on this thread, you are sadly mistaken.

DP- Contact the school board with your support of this plan.

We are all Lewis supporters, we just disagree with support Lewis vs supporting our kids and the kids at Lewis. Many kids at Lewis have different needs than our kids, we want support for ALL of them as well, not just support of test scores.

I have already contacted the board and suspect others have as well, which is why we don’t need the incessant reminders.

I appreciate your stance, which is totally understandable. It gives me hope that your pyramid isn’t full of completely selfish and unhinged parents, like some of the ones in this thread. I sincerely hope that the SB is able to come up with a solution that will minimize the pain and maximize the value of whatever changes are to come.

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It is a true "leopards ate my face moment" for a lot of left leaning WSHS parents who likely voted for SB members pushing boundary adjustments. The same moms who virtue signal via facebook posts about afghan refugees, and with flags in their yard proclaiming "love is love, no human is illegal, black lives matter...." Time to see their true colors as this develops and they face the prospect of sending their infallible children to an 87% minority populated school with inferior academic opportunities.

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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.

The school board does not want split feeders.

So this means moving an entire elementary school.

Keene Mill is the closest to Lewis, followed by West Springfield, which puts them in the forefront.

WEST Springfield Elementary's Daventry neighborhood was the most recent rezoning from Lewis, which might also come into play.

West Springfield Elementary got redistricted by Jeff McKay and the all D Board of Supervisors into the Franconia magesterial district (which included Lewis High School) in an attempt to gerrymander Pat Herrity (only moderate centrist in northern Virginia) out of office. This was done only a couple hours before the deadline, after a different map that did not split 22152 into 3 different magisterial districts had already been agreed upon by the board of supervisors. 22152 had the least population shift in Fairfax County, but took almost all of the 7 or so redistricting changes.

This gerrymandering of 22152 might put the West Springfield Elementary neighborhoods (golf course through Daventry) as the prime neighborhood to be rezoned from West Springfield to Lewis. They already are represented by the Lewis/Franconia school board rep, NOT the West Springfield/Springfield district rep.

Hunt Valley is the Farthest neighborhood from Lewis, except for Sangster.

I suspect if Hunt Valley is rezoned, it will be to nearby South County, not Lewis as Saratoga mom keeps repeating.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a true "leopards ate my face moment" for a lot of left leaning WSHS parents who likely voted for SB members pushing boundary adjustments. The same moms who virtue signal via facebook posts about afghan refugees, and with flags in their yard proclaiming "love is love, no human is illegal, black lives matter...." Time to see their true colors as this develops and they face the prospect of sending their infallible children to an 87% minority populated school with inferior academic opportunities.

Haha I just came upon this conversation in a mom FB group. As a WSHS I didn’t know what was going on but I wanted to ask, as a teacher in the Lewis pyramid, what are they worried about? Just to see what they say is their concern for the possible move to Lewis.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a true "leopards ate my face moment" for a lot of left leaning WSHS parents who likely voted for SB members pushing boundary adjustments. The same moms who virtue signal via facebook posts about afghan refugees, and with flags in their yard proclaiming "love is love, no human is illegal, black lives matter...." Time to see their true colors as this develops and they face the prospect of sending their infallible children to an 87% minority populated school with inferior academic opportunities.

You would like that because it tells a neat, political story you can use to advocate for your agenda. I promise we can be all those things. If you want to play black and white, one size fits all, that thinking is on you.

We can advocate for better for Lewis kids while seeking out high schools that have high achieving minority peers.
We can say our own neighborhoods and communities shouldn’t be split up because we chose this area because of it’s tight knit community feel. We can say that test scores to make a school look better shouldn’t rule what is best for kids.

There is nuance here and our kids don’t have to be used to bolster up a school’s scores on great schools and the FCPS dashboard.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a true "leopards ate my face moment" for a lot of left leaning WSHS parents who likely voted for SB members pushing boundary adjustments. The same moms who virtue signal via facebook posts about afghan refugees, and with flags in their yard proclaiming "love is love, no human is illegal, black lives matter...." Time to see their true colors as this develops and they face the prospect of sending their infallible children to an 87% minority populated school with inferior academic opportunities.

You would like that because it tells a neat, political story you can use to advocate for your agenda. I promise we can be all those things. If you want to play black and white, one size fits all, that thinking is on you.

We can advocate for better for Lewis kids while seeking out high schools that have high achieving minority peers.
We can say our own neighborhoods and communities shouldn’t be split up because we chose this area because of it’s tight knit community feel. We can say that test scores to make a school look better shouldn’t rule what is best for kids.

There is nuance here and our kids don’t have to be used to bolster up a school’s scores on great schools and the FCPS dashboard.

You can say all those things but they changed HS boundaries in 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2021. When the enrollments are as imbalanced as those at WSHS and Lewis, you don't deserve an exemption.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a true "leopards ate my face moment" for a lot of left leaning WSHS parents who likely voted for SB members pushing boundary adjustments. The same moms who virtue signal via facebook posts about afghan refugees, and with flags in their yard proclaiming "love is love, no human is illegal, black lives matter...." Time to see their true colors as this develops and they face the prospect of sending their infallible children to an 87% minority populated school with inferior academic opportunities.

Haha I just came upon this conversation in a mom FB group. As a WSHS I didn’t know what was going on but I wanted to ask, as a teacher in the Lewis pyramid, what are they worried about? Just to see what they say is their concern for the possible move to Lewis.

I’m in that same FB group. I don’t want my kids to go to different high schools if the redistricting happens when my oldest is a rising senior. I’m not afraid of the brown immigrants; I’m one myself. I’d rather my kids go to South County where we have a lot of friends and are also a part of that community.

I also see no discussion of how they’re going to prop up Lewis other than sending some WS kids there.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a true "leopards ate my face moment" for a lot of left leaning WSHS parents who likely voted for SB members pushing boundary adjustments. The same moms who virtue signal via facebook posts about afghan refugees, and with flags in their yard proclaiming "love is love, no human is illegal, black lives matter...." Time to see their true colors as this develops and they face the prospect of sending their infallible children to an 87% minority populated school with inferior academic opportunities.

You would like that because it tells a neat, political story you can use to advocate for your agenda. I promise we can be all those things. If you want to play black and white, one size fits all, that thinking is on you.

We can advocate for better for Lewis kids while seeking out high schools that have high achieving minority peers.
We can say our own neighborhoods and communities shouldn’t be split up because we chose this area because of it’s tight knit community feel. We can say that test scores to make a school look better shouldn’t rule what is best for kids.

There is nuance here and our kids don’t have to be used to bolster up a school’s scores on great schools and the FCPS dashboard.

You can say all those things but they changed HS boundaries in 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2021. When the enrollments are as imbalanced as those at WSHS and Lewis, you don't deserve an exemption.

Deserve? What? Is this a vengeful anger punishment like “you don’t deserve dessert because you backtalked me”? I’m honestly confused why you think children “deserve” boundary changes.

Why would anyone follow HS boundaries in 2008-2013 when their kids aren’t even both born yet?
You sound mad and you seem to want others to feel your pain. That isn’t very admirable.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a true "leopards ate my face moment" for a lot of left leaning WSHS parents who likely voted for SB members pushing boundary adjustments. The same moms who virtue signal via facebook posts about afghan refugees, and with flags in their yard proclaiming "love is love, no human is illegal, black lives matter...." Time to see their true colors as this develops and they face the prospect of sending their infallible children to an 87% minority populated school with inferior academic opportunities.

Haha I just came upon this conversation in a mom FB group. As a WSHS I didn’t know what was going on but I wanted to ask, as a teacher in the Lewis pyramid, what are they worried about? Just to see what they say is their concern for the possible move to Lewis.

I’m in that same FB group. I don’t want my kids to go to different high schools if the redistricting happens when my oldest is a rising senior. I’m not afraid of the brown immigrants; I’m one myself. I’d rather my kids go to South County where we have a lot of friends and are also a part of that community.

I also see no discussion of how they’re going to prop up Lewis other than sending some WS kids there.

I agree.

Moving high school students, especially sophomores through seniors, is unconscionable.

Tell me teacher, if they move a hundred or so 10th and 11th graders from WSHS, how many of those kids are going to have the opportunity to be elected class officer or representative? Club officer? Editor of the yearbook or school newspaper?

The elections occur in the spring. Those WSHS rising juniors and seniors will be conpletely shut out of all upper classmen leadership opportunities for the school years leading up to their college applications.

How many of them will be selected captain of the sports teams their junior and senior years?

Those captain positions are not given to first year players.

The kids who transfer to Lewis from WSHS will be completely shut out of captains positions, even if they were on track to hold those positions at WSHS.

Transferring during high school greatly screws with your college applications.

Ask any military kid who has transferred during high school. There are many of them at WSHS.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a true "leopards ate my face moment" for a lot of left leaning WSHS parents who likely voted for SB members pushing boundary adjustments. The same moms who virtue signal via facebook posts about afghan refugees, and with flags in their yard proclaiming "love is love, no human is illegal, black lives matter...." Time to see their true colors as this develops and they face the prospect of sending their infallible children to an 87% minority populated school with inferior academic opportunities.

You would like that because it tells a neat, political story you can use to advocate for your agenda. I promise we can be all those things. If you want to play black and white, one size fits all, that thinking is on you.

We can advocate for better for Lewis kids while seeking out high schools that have high achieving minority peers.
We can say our own neighborhoods and communities shouldn’t be split up because we chose this area because of it’s tight knit community feel. We can say that test scores to make a school look better shouldn’t rule what is best for kids.

There is nuance here and our kids don’t have to be used to bolster up a school’s scores on great schools and the FCPS dashboard.

You can say all those things but they changed HS boundaries in 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2021. When the enrollments are as imbalanced as those at WSHS and Lewis, you don't deserve an exemption.

Deserve? What? Is this a vengeful anger punishment like “you don’t deserve dessert because you backtalked me”? I’m honestly confused why you think children “deserve” boundary changes.

Why would anyone follow HS boundaries in 2008-2013 when their kids aren’t even both born yet?
You sound mad and you seem to want others to feel your pain. That isn’t very admirable.

Context is important. If anything, they've redistricted in the past in circumstances far less compelling than those now suggesting the need for a West Springfield/Lewis boundary adjustment.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a true "leopards ate my face moment" for a lot of left leaning WSHS parents who likely voted for SB members pushing boundary adjustments. The same moms who virtue signal via facebook posts about afghan refugees, and with flags in their yard proclaiming "love is love, no human is illegal, black lives matter...." Time to see their true colors as this develops and they face the prospect of sending their infallible children to an 87% minority populated school with inferior academic opportunities.

Haha I just came upon this conversation in a mom FB group. As a WSHS I didn’t know what was going on but I wanted to ask, as a teacher in the Lewis pyramid, what are they worried about? Just to see what they say is their concern for the possible move to Lewis.

I’m in that same FB group. I don’t want my kids to go to different high schools if the redistricting happens when my oldest is a rising senior. I’m not afraid of the brown immigrants; I’m one myself. I’d rather my kids go to South County where we have a lot of friends and are also a part of that community.

I also see no discussion of how they’re going to prop up Lewis other than sending some WS kids there.

I agree.

Moving high school students, especially sophomores through seniors, is unconscionable.

Tell me teacher, if they move a hundred or so 10th and 11th graders from WSHS, how many of those kids are going to have the opportunity to be elected class officer or representative? Club officer? Editor of the yearbook or school newspaper?

The elections occur in the spring. Those WSHS rising juniors and seniors will be conpletely shut out of all upper classmen leadership opportunities for the school years leading up to their college applications.

How many of them will be selected captain of the sports teams their junior and senior years?

Those captain positions are not given to first year players.

The kids who transfer to Lewis from WSHS will be completely shut out of captains positions, even if they were on track to hold those positions at WSHS.

Transferring during high school greatly screws with your college applications.

Ask any military kid who has transferred during high school. There are many of them at WSHS.

I agree that it gets iffy. If I have a junior in 2 years I don’t want them moved for the last two years. I wish there was a way to ease into it.

On the other hand, Lewis is way less competitive. There is little to no cutting for the popular sports of WSHS and Lewis wasn’t even able to have a baseball team so maybe positive shuffles can be made.

Also why is everyone focused on WSHS? Is that the only school that the school board is focused on when they discuss boundary changes related to Lewis?