Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

According to Dr Reid , people that could be affected by the new high school were invited to the open house. But we got the invite and we are in the Madison pyramid.

[Anonymous]

The school board didn’t run on this. Mrs Reid wasn’t hired for this either.

They put the framework in place for future school board members and the next superintendent to run and be hired to make (or not make) changes.

End this farce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

Yeah, Lewis is definitely not a school you want your child to attend at present. Poor quality education and dangerous as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to Dr Reid , people that could be affected by the new high school were invited to the open house. But we got the invite and we are in the Madison pyramid.

Are you zoned to Oakton ES?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well at some point soon it will no longer be “the consultant” and the board will need to own the maps.

Okay, I'm trying to keep up here. The next round of maps, Scenario 5, will be mostly the western high school and any boundaries that need to change for that. Then, after all of the community feedback, BRAC looks at this again and we get a Scenario 6 in late November? And then Reid gets it and she releases her Scenario 7 in January, which is the one the school board will vote on?

So, we're a little over halfway done when it comes to getting new maps?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

I moved here right after South County opened, and didn’t have kids in FCPS yet. But I always thought SC took almost all of its students from Hayfield, which was bursting at the seams at the time? I can’t imagine commuting to Lewis from Lorton. What elementary(ies?) were zoned to Lee at the time that ended up at SC, or were these secondary moves to put kids into Hayfield when they lost students to SC?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

Yeah, Lewis is definitely not a school you want your child to attend at present. Poor quality education and dangerous as well.

This is false information. Lewis provides an excellent education, and I sincerely don't know what you're referring to with it being dangerous.

The big challenge with Lewis is that it's so small, so it's hard to support extracurricular activities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

I moved here right after South County opened, and didn’t have kids in FCPS yet. But I always thought SC took almost all of its students from Hayfield, which was bursting at the seams at the time? I can’t imagine commuting to Lewis from Lorton. What elementary(ies?) were zoned to Lee at the time that ended up at SC, or were these secondary moves to put kids into Hayfield when they lost students to SC?

Newington Forest previously split between Lee and Hayfield. When South County opened all of Newington Forest went to South County. In the same boundary study, Hunt Valley, which had split between West Springfield and Lee, was all sent to West Springfield.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

Yeah, Lewis is definitely not a school you want your child to attend at present. Poor quality education and dangerous as well.

This is false information. Lewis provides an excellent education, and I sincerely don't know what you're referring to with it being dangerous.

The big challenge with Lewis is that it's so small, so it's hard to support extracurricular activities.

DP, only for activists in Fairfax County is a 1,500+ school deemed “so small”. Over under on the percentage of public high schools in the country less than 1,500 students? I’d guess 80 or 90%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

Yeah, Lewis is definitely not a school you want your child to attend at present. Poor quality education and dangerous as well.

This is false information. Lewis provides an excellent education, and I sincerely don't know what you're referring to with it being dangerous.

The big challenge with Lewis is that it's so small, so it's hard to support extracurricular activities.

DP, only for activists in Fairfax County is a 1,500+ school deemed “so small”. Over under on the percentage of public high schools in the country less than 1,500 students? I’d guess 80 or 90%.

Well, add to that that a large portion of those kids are not engaged in the school. Poor attendance, lack of interest in school spirit, etc. Not sure if that's the fault of the admin or the parents at home, but I think it feels even smaller than it is because only about half the school is fully participating in it at a typical high school level.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

Yeah, Lewis is definitely not a school you want your child to attend at present. Poor quality education and dangerous as well.

This is false information. Lewis provides an excellent education, and I sincerely don't know what you're referring to with it being dangerous.

The big challenge with Lewis is that it's so small, so it's hard to support extracurricular activities.

DP, only for activists in Fairfax County is a 1,500+ school deemed “so small”. Over under on the percentage of public high schools in the country less than 1,500 students? I’d guess 80 or 90%.

Yeah, the high ESL, high poverty, most of those from other cultures might have something to do with it. You can't argue that FCPS has established boundaries and policies that have made Lewis unlike other local high schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

I moved here right after South County opened, and didn’t have kids in FCPS yet. But I always thought SC took almost all of its students from Hayfield, which was bursting at the seams at the time? I can’t imagine commuting to Lewis from Lorton. What elementary(ies?) were zoned to Lee at the time that ended up at SC, or were these secondary moves to put kids into Hayfield when they lost students to SC?

Newington Forest previously split between Lee and Hayfield. When South County opened all of Newington Forest went to South County. In the same boundary study, Hunt Valley, which had split between West Springfield and Lee, was all sent to West Springfield.

I knew that about the Hunt Valley split feeder but didn’t realize some of Newington Forest was at Lee as well. That’s a brutal drive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

Yeah, Lewis is definitely not a school you want your child to attend at present. Poor quality education and dangerous as well.

This is false information. Lewis provides an excellent education, and I sincerely don't know what you're referring to with it being dangerous.

The big challenge with Lewis is that it's so small, so it's hard to support extracurricular activities.

DP, only for activists in Fairfax County is a 1,500+ school deemed “so small”. Over under on the percentage of public high schools in the country less than 1,500 students? I’d guess 80 or 90%.

It's reasonable for people to want their school to have an enrollment in the ballpark of other schools in the same jurisdiction, as that has implications for the courses that can be offered and the relative strength of the extra-curricular programs.

Any time Lewis families suggest FCPS should take steps to improve conditions at Lewis, they get accused of being radicals. But the School Board very clearly states that key considerations when considering boundary adjustments include equitable access to programming and maximizing the effective and efficient use of school facilities.

Of course, the likes of Sandy Anderson ignore this, so what we get instead are proposals to move kids out of, rather than into, Lewis and new threads every few weeks where people dump on Lewis.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know the western part of the county as well as the southeastern, but when South County opened the ensuing boundary changes left Lee (Lewis) with a high-poverty population. Is there a risk that this could happen to a school like Westfield?

I moved here right after South County opened, and didn’t have kids in FCPS yet. But I always thought SC took almost all of its students from Hayfield, which was bursting at the seams at the time? I can’t imagine commuting to Lewis from Lorton. What elementary(ies?) were zoned to Lee at the time that ended up at SC, or were these secondary moves to put kids into Hayfield when they lost students to SC?

Newington Forest previously split between Lee and Hayfield. When South County opened all of Newington Forest went to South County. In the same boundary study, Hunt Valley, which had split between West Springfield and Lee, was all sent to West Springfield.

I knew that about the Hunt Valley split feeder but didn’t realize some of Newington Forest was at Lee as well. That’s a brutal drive.

Gambrill to the Parkway, not really that brutal. But yes, SC is the right school for those neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The school board didn’t run on this. Mrs Reid wasn’t hired for this either.

They put the framework in place for future school board members and the next superintendent to run and be hired to make (or not make) changes.

End this farce.

DOCTOR Reid. No need to be a misogynist.