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Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

[Anonymous]

I haven't read all of these pages, but I am looking at Scenario 4--maybe this has been answered already, but why isn't KAA on the scenario map?

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read all of these pages, but I am looking at Scenario 4--maybe this has been answered already, but why isn't KAA on the scenario map?

Because they are stupid. Supposedly there will be new maps next week.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read all of these pages, but I am looking at Scenario 4--maybe this has been answered already, but why isn't KAA on the scenario map?

There are going to be at least 2 more map revisions.

Map 5 will have more changes with the new high school added.

Msp 6 will have the school board changes and wish list.

Map 6 goes to Dr. Reid, who can either make more changes (map 7) for the final map. or approve map 6 as it stands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

They are not.

They are moving around 280 homes from Lewis to West Springfield.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

They are not.

They are moving around 280 homes from Lewis to West Springfield.

A distinction without a difference when discussing overcrowding at WSHS and Lewis under capacity.

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That Rolling Valley/Lewis neighborhood is going to end up with as many or more kids than Daventry brought to WSHS.

No it won’t. The more you say it doesn’t make it any more likely to happen.

Are you kidding me?! It will 100% guaranteed bring more students to WSHS Than the current 20 they project. We have two families in our neighbors who moved from that neighborhood to ours to insure WSHS. Now families like theirs will not need to move. More families with HSers will stay put. Daventry a publish school enrollment for HS has skyrocketed in the past 15 years for the same reason.

Daventry has about four times as many houses as that section of townhomes, maybe more. It’s also on a five year review cycle now, unfortunately.

If you don’t want that section going to WSHS - go with the angle of “you shouldn’t take kids from Lewis” angle instead.

I’m familiar with the townhome community in question. The obsession over it is unhinged.

Daventry has 724 homes.

That Rolling Valley/Lewis neighborhood has 282 homes based on google maps.

Daventry has just over 2.5 more homes than the Lewis Rolling Valley neighborhood, not "4 times as many".

They both had around 20 high school students as the number used for justifying the rezoning.

Based on the rezoning numbers, the Rolling Valley neighborhood already has a higher concentration of high school students than Daventry did.

Rolling Valley: 20 HS students/282 homes = 7%

Daventry: 20 HS students/724 homes = 2.7%


Look, I think that the part of that RV neighborhood inside the parkway that exits onto Rolling Road going to WSHS makes sense on paper. (Not the streets that exit only onto the Pkwy; those Lewis RV neighborhoods should go to Saratoga and stay at Lewis with the handful of RV houses outside the Pkwy, since they must get on the Parkway to go to all of the 4 schools.) Anyone who tries to ignore what happened to Daventry, claiming that it won't happen to that Rolling Valley Lewis neighborhood are either being willfully ignorant, or flat out lying.

We have the recent example of Daventry, so we know exactly what will happen to enrollment from that neighborhood in the next 2-4 years.

It might not bring in as many students as Daventry did, but it will be close and far more students to WSHS than 20.

[Anonymous]

Moving kids from Lewis to West Springfield just shows how completely FCPS has lost the plot. Sandy Anderson is corrupt, Marcia St. John-Cunning is useless, and Michelle Reid is incompetent.

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That Rolling Valley/Lewis neighborhood is going to end up with as many or more kids than Daventry brought to WSHS.

No it won’t. The more you say it doesn’t make it any more likely to happen.

Are you kidding me?! It will 100% guaranteed bring more students to WSHS Than the current 20 they project. We have two families in our neighbors who moved from that neighborhood to ours to insure WSHS. Now families like theirs will not need to move. More families with HSers will stay put. Daventry a publish school enrollment for HS has skyrocketed in the past 15 years for the same reason.

Daventry has about four times as many houses as that section of townhomes, maybe more. It’s also on a five year review cycle now, unfortunately.

If you don’t want that section going to WSHS - go with the angle of “you shouldn’t take kids from Lewis” angle instead.

I’m familiar with the townhome community in question. The obsession over it is unhinged.

Daventry has 724 homes.

That Rolling Valley/Lewis neighborhood has 282 homes based on google maps.

Daventry has just over 2.5 more homes than the Lewis Rolling Valley neighborhood, not "4 times as many".

They both had around 20 high school students as the number used for justifying the rezoning.

Based on the rezoning numbers, the Rolling Valley neighborhood already has a higher concentration of high school students than Daventry did.

Rolling Valley: 20 HS students/282 homes = 7%

Daventry: 20 HS students/724 homes = 2.7%


Look, I think that the part of that RV neighborhood inside the parkway that exits onto Rolling Road going to WSHS makes sense on paper. (Not the streets that exit only onto the Pkwy; those Lewis RV neighborhoods should go to Saratoga and stay at Lewis with the handful of RV houses outside the Pkwy, since they must get on the Parkway to go to all of the 4 schools.) Anyone who tries to ignore what happened to Daventry, claiming that it won't happen to that Rolling Valley Lewis neighborhood are either being willfully ignorant, or flat out lying.

We have the recent example of Daventry, so we know exactly what will happen to enrollment from that neighborhood in the next 2-4 years.

It might not bring in as many students as Daventry did, but it will be close and far more students to WSHS than 20.

I’m genuinely curious about your obsession with this. What gives? Do you have kids at Lewis? Do you have nothing better to do than hound this speculation over and over and over again?

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I am a different poster than who you are replying too - but as a group of houses currently zoned for West Springfield and on the latest Mapp getting moved out of West Springfield, I am deeply invested in this because they keep telling us we have to leave because of overcrowding and yet they are moving in a whole new neighborhood which will definitely grow in population with the new boundaries.

I appreciate that other people see this trend and it’s not just my neighbors and I

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Anonymous wrote:I am a different poster than who you are replying too - but as a group of houses currently zoned for West Springfield and on the latest Mapp getting moved out of West Springfield, I am deeply invested in this because they keep telling us we have to leave because of overcrowding and yet they are moving in a whole new neighborhood which will definitely grow in population with the new boundaries.

I appreciate that other people see this trend and it’s not just my neighbors and I

I am also a different poster and I don't understand why remove current WSHS-zoned kids separating them from their schools and friends and immediately add a different neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a different poster than who you are replying too - but as a group of houses currently zoned for West Springfield and on the latest Mapp getting moved out of West Springfield, I am deeply invested in this because they keep telling us we have to leave because of overcrowding and yet they are moving in a whole new neighborhood which will definitely grow in population with the new boundaries.

I appreciate that other people see this trend and it’s not just my neighbors and I

I am also a different poster and I don't understand why remove current WSHS-zoned kids separating them from their schools and friends and immediately add a different neighborhood.

DP. I also don't understand this. You don't move kids from an under-enrolled school to an overcrowded school. Especially when you're moving two other neighborhoods out because of the overcrowding. That makes no sense at all.

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That Rolling Valley/Lewis neighborhood is going to end up with as many or more kids than Daventry brought to WSHS.

No it won’t. The more you say it doesn’t make it any more likely to happen.

Are you kidding me?! It will 100% guaranteed bring more students to WSHS Than the current 20 they project. We have two families in our neighbors who moved from that neighborhood to ours to insure WSHS. Now families like theirs will not need to move. More families with HSers will stay put. Daventry a publish school enrollment for HS has skyrocketed in the past 15 years for the same reason.

Daventry has about four times as many houses as that section of townhomes, maybe more. It’s also on a five year review cycle now, unfortunately.

If you don’t want that section going to WSHS - go with the angle of “you shouldn’t take kids from Lewis” angle instead.

I’m familiar with the townhome community in question. The obsession over it is unhinged.

Daventry has 724 homes.

That Rolling Valley/Lewis neighborhood has 282 homes based on google maps.

Daventry has just over 2.5 more homes than the Lewis Rolling Valley neighborhood, not "4 times as many".

They both had around 20 high school students as the number used for justifying the rezoning.

Based on the rezoning numbers, the Rolling Valley neighborhood already has a higher concentration of high school students than Daventry did.

Rolling Valley: 20 HS students/282 homes = 7%

Daventry: 20 HS students/724 homes = 2.7%


Look, I think that the part of that RV neighborhood inside the parkway that exits onto Rolling Road going to WSHS makes sense on paper. (Not the streets that exit only onto the Pkwy; those Lewis RV neighborhoods should go to Saratoga and stay at Lewis with the handful of RV houses outside the Pkwy, since they must get on the Parkway to go to all of the 4 schools.) Anyone who tries to ignore what happened to Daventry, claiming that it won't happen to that Rolling Valley Lewis neighborhood are either being willfully ignorant, or flat out lying.

We have the recent example of Daventry, so we know exactly what will happen to enrollment from that neighborhood in the next 2-4 years.

It might not bring in as many students as Daventry did, but it will be close and far more students to WSHS than 20.

I’m genuinely curious about your obsession with this. What gives? Do you have kids at Lewis? Do you have nothing better to do than hound this speculation over and over and over again?

DP but no. I don’t have students at Lewis or WSHS. I just think it’s a perfect example of how FCPS hasn’t learned from previous re-zoning mistakes. “20 kids at Lewis” will balloon to 80 at WSHS, easily. And for a school like WS that’s supposedly over-crowded, they shouldn’t be moving anyone else in. And they also moved some of the attendance islands and split feeders out in order to make room for this neighborhood … so what was the reason for making this change anyway? The split feeder could have easily been closed by moving all the current RVES split neighborhoods to Saratoga.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a different poster than who you are replying too - but as a group of houses currently zoned for West Springfield and on the latest Mapp getting moved out of West Springfield, I am deeply invested in this because they keep telling us we have to leave because of overcrowding and yet they are moving in a whole new neighborhood which will definitely grow in population with the new boundaries.

I appreciate that other people see this trend and it’s not just my neighbors and I

Many WSHS stand with the Sangster families on this one, even families who think that getting sent to Lake Braddock is a good option, and families who think that Sangster miving yo LB to address overcrowding at WSHS makes sense.

Here is the issue with map 4, that many WSHS families are upset about.

If WSHS is so overcrowded that long term neighborhoods that have been zoned to WSHS for decades, since they were built in most cases, must be moved out now to relieve overcrowding, then not a single house should be move into WSHS.

What the Springfield school board rep is doing now, is picking favorites and insulting her constituents' intelligence, by A) claiming the rezoning is about relieving overcrowding, when clearly it is not since by her stated wishes, she is moving neighborhoods into WSHS and B) gaslighting her constituents by repeatedly arguing that it will only be 20 students, when from the recent Daventry example, we know it will be many times more students than 20.

No one appreciates being taken as a fool, and if it can happen to one neighborhood it can happen to any neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

Moving the Rolling Valley Lewis students to WSHS and moving other neighborhoods out of WSHS to make room for the Lewis kids has been the Springfield representative's biggest rezoning priority since FCPS started revising policy 8130.