Boundary Review Meetings

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Anonymous wrote:Reid just said at tonight’s boundary meeting that she didn’t know they were taking students from Lewis to WSHS 🥴

Not surprised. Her inattention to detail has been apparent throughout this entire, flawed boundary process.

You can't really pull off a county-wide boundary review without an excruciating attention to detail and understanding of existing feeder patterns and how various changes have ripple effects. That's consistently been lacking from this process.

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Anonymous wrote:Reid just said at tonight’s boundary meeting that she didn’t know they were taking students from Lewis to WSHS 🥴

She sure did! And the parents are pissed they are taking students from an underpopulated school to one over capacity. This is a spicy meeting for sure!

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Anonymous wrote:What meeting is tonight

Edison/Lewis

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Anonymous wrote:Reid just said at tonight’s boundary meeting that she didn’t know they were taking students from Lewis to WSHS 🥴

She sure did! And the parents are pissed they are taking students from an underpopulated school to one over capacity. This is a spicy meeting for sure!

And the military BRAC rep was very poorly trying to defend the decision...

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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.

Only if you are talking about 2AM

It is a crazy ling commute for a school bus, especially when you factor in 30 minutes of stops to pick up kids.

Parts of the Saratoga area are just as far as Gambrill and Pohick.

Yes, and Saratoga should have been moved to SoCo when it opened, but the Saratoga families fought to stay at Lee/now Lewis.

That was over 20 years ago. Things have changed and if the board was truly focused on transportation they should have revisited this. Both SoCo and WS are closer in mileage and neither requires highway transport. Lewis is the furthest away and requires the bus to get on 95.

I've heard this 95 argument before, but it doesn't make sense. I drive from the Sydenstricker/Gambrill area to the Key/Lewis area at least once a week. I never get on 95. I don't even know how that would work. There is no highway driving other than the Parkway.

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Anonymous wrote:Reid just said at tonight’s boundary meeting that she didn’t know they were taking students from Lewis to WSHS 🥴

She sure did! And the parents are pissed they are taking students from an underpopulated school to one over capacity. This is a spicy meeting for sure!

Good lord...Reid again just said that she did not realize they were moving Lewis students out. Who the heck is paying attention????

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Anonymous wrote:Reid just said at tonight’s boundary meeting that she didn’t know they were taking students from Lewis to WSHS 🥴

She sure did! And the parents are pissed they are taking students from an underpopulated school to one over capacity. This is a spicy meeting for sure!

Good lord...Reid again just said that she did not realize they were moving Lewis students out. Who the heck is paying attention????

Looks like Sandy's pet project is getting squashed!

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Anonymous wrote:Reid just said at tonight’s boundary meeting that she didn’t know they were taking students from Lewis to WSHS 🥴

She sure did! And the parents are pissed they are taking students from an underpopulated school to one over capacity. This is a spicy meeting for sure!

Good lord...Reid again just said that she did not realize they were moving Lewis students out. Who the heck is paying attention????

Looks like Sandy's pet project is getting squashed!

So we have a Superintendent who hasn't been following the boundary change proposals and a School Board Chair who was the biggest advocate for a change that is now widely being called out as ludicrous.

We're in great hands, people.

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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.

Only if you are talking about 2AM

It is a crazy ling commute for a school bus, especially when you factor in 30 minutes of stops to pick up kids.

Parts of the Saratoga area are just as far as Gambrill and Pohick.

Yes, and Saratoga should have been moved to SoCo when it opened, but the Saratoga families fought to stay at Lee/now Lewis.

That was over 20 years ago. Things have changed and if the board was truly focused on transportation they should have revisited this. Both SoCo and WS are closer in mileage and neither requires highway transport. Lewis is the furthest away and requires the bus to get on 95.

I've heard this 95 argument before, but it doesn't make sense. I drive from the Sydenstricker/Gambrill area to the Key/Lewis area at least once a week. I never get on 95. I don't even know how that would work. There is no highway driving other than the Parkway.

Doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make sense to you. It’s true.

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Anonymous wrote:Reid just said at tonight’s boundary meeting that she didn’t know they were taking students from Lewis to WSHS 🥴

She sure did! And the parents are pissed they are taking students from an underpopulated school to one over capacity. This is a spicy meeting for sure!

Good lord...Reid again just said that she did not realize they were moving Lewis students out. Who the heck is paying attention????

Looks like Sandy's pet project is getting squashed!

So we have a Superintendent who hasn't been following the boundary change proposals and a School Board Chair who was the biggest advocate for a change that is now widely being called out as ludicrous.


We're in great hands, people.

Seriously, this is horrifying. These are HUGE changes for many families and has been handled so poorly from the start.

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Anonymous wrote:Reid just said at tonight’s boundary meeting that she didn’t know they were taking students from Lewis to WSHS 🥴

She sure did! And the parents are pissed they are taking students from an underpopulated school to one over capacity. This is a spicy meeting for sure!

Good lord...Reid again just said that she did not realize they were moving Lewis students out. Who the heck is paying attention????

Looks like Sandy's pet project is getting squashed!

So we have a Superintendent who hasn't been following the boundary change proposals and a School Board Chair who was the biggest advocate for a change that is now widely being called out as ludicrous.

We're in great hands, people.

But, she has so many pictures on the website!

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I'm really feeling for these Lewis parents tonight. Great parents, great comments at the meeting tonight. I know know one from FCPS looks at these boards...but if they do...support freaking Lewis

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really feeling for these Lewis parents tonight. Great parents, great comments at the meeting tonight. I know know one from FCPS looks at these boards...but if they do...support freaking Lewis

They monitor this forum. They just try not to admit it.

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Anonymous wrote:Why on earth do we need a huge preschool space at a high school?

So Merin can claim there just isn’t space to redistrict kids from South Lakes.

It’s Meren and she’s one of the only School Board members asking the right questions these days.

Yeah, her idea to put a pre-school at a high school is totally the normal thing to do. Don't you remember all those 4 year olds running around the place back when you went to high school?

My high school in the 1990s had a preschool. It was essentially an early childhood education academy-style program. I think that would be a great program to have. There is a huge need for early childhood education providers in this area and this would be an excellent training ground for them. There are also a lot of low income families in the area that could use a head start program.

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Anonymous wrote:Reid just said at tonight’s boundary meeting that she didn’t know they were taking students from Lewis to WSHS 🥴

She sure did! And the parents are pissed they are taking students from an underpopulated school to one over capacity. This is a spicy meeting for sure!

And the military BRAC rep was very poorly trying to defend the decision...

What did they say? I totally missed that there was a meeting tonight.