School Boundaries and "One Fairfax"

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Which parts of the West Springfield Boundary would make the most sense to move to Lee?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which parts of the West Springfield Boundary would make the most sense to move to Lee?

Daventry.

They just rezoned that neighborhood from Lee to WSHS. And they are the closest neighborhood to Lee.

If fcps rezones, Daventry should be the first to move back.

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Anonymous wrote:They should change the Lee/West Springfield boundaries for sure. Top reason for changes is to address overcrowding. Sounds like that’s been an ongoing problem at WSHS.

It is not an issue. That was a temporary issue.

FCPS has West Springfield at 10% over capacity by 2023.

The West Springfield boundaries are hard because they’re relatively compact, not all gerrymandered like the boundaries are in the western part of the county. The most logical thing to do there isn’t to send kids to Lee, it’s to send kids from the southern part of the attendance area to also under-enrolled but physically closer South County. But, if the decisions have to be made with an eye toward balancing SES factors, that would mean sending feeders to Lee even if it makes Lee have a huge attendance area.

NP: not gerrymandered? Daventry played so many games to get realigned from lee to ws. They should have been moving all the houses along okm up until Greely to Lee to alleviate wshs overcrowding pre renovation. Instead, the wealthiest lee subset managed to get realigned to ws. Saratoga houses are trying to follow suit to south county. I taught at key for years. The boundaries are made not by what benefits the majority of children, but what benefits the wealthiest of children.

Not at all gerrymandered.

It is a compact circle, not a bunch of tentacles.

WSHS is set up like a neighborhood school. Fcps should use that as a model. If you look at results, the neighborhood school works well for all the kids, especially lower performing groups.

Daventry and Hunt Valley should never have been moved out of Lee. They were by far the wealthiest elementary schools feeding Lee. Both single digit F/R lunch numbers. All the other feeders are high F/R. Lee has also been several hundred students under enrolled since they moved Hunt Valley out.

There is no going back now. FCPS screwed Lee.

Hunt Valley is the farthest WSHS neighborhood from Lee.

There are the least logical elementary to be rezoned to Lee. There are more than a half dozen elementary schools between hunt valley and Lee HS.

[Anonymous]

Rolling Valley is already a split feeder, so I’d imagine that would be the easiest move.

[Anonymous]

https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-awarded-virginia-high-school-innovation-implementation-grant

Has Braband been reading DCUM?

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https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-awarded-virginia-high-school-innovation-implementation-grant

Has Braband been reading DCUM?

Hopefully Herndon can get similar help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which parts of the West Springfield Boundary would make the most sense to move to Lee?

Start with daventry and keep moving along OKM until wshs is no longer projected to be overenrolled and lee has more middle class kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Which parts of the West Springfield Boundary would make the most sense to move to Lee?

Start with daventry and keep moving along OKM until wshs is no longer projected to be overenrolled and lee has more middle class kids.

West Springfield is not overenrolled.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is the type of issue where “progressive” young parents in their 30’s first encounter liberal polices first hand.

You may have voted Dem without thinking twice your entire life, but if you like me have worked hard and sacrificed to afford a house in a school district you chose, you have to realize that there is a good chance your kids may be re-zoned into a different school in the name of “social justice” in the next 5-10 years.

You bought in Oakton / Langley Pyramid? - Herndon
You wanted your kids to go to Woodson / Lake Braddock? - they are now heading to Annandale
You though they were going to McLean? - it’s now Stuart / Justice
West Springfield is now Lee

This isn’t hyperbole, at the last working meeting they specifically reviewed changes to policy documents that would allow for widespread boundary changes in the name of “racial composition of students”, changing it from "socioeconomic characteristics of schools."

If you are ok with your children being part of this experiment then I applaud you on standing by your morals, sacrificing your child’s education and home value to serve idea I guess is a laudable act.

Please keep all of this in mind when you vote for School Board and County positions this fall. This election is going to be the biggest change in power in FFX county since the 1970’s with so many incumbents not seeking

Many people in this area are so bubbleized and practically immune from economic problems and the like that they can’t see three feet in front of them.

True. What's the point of working hard to stabilize yourself if it means you decrease your economic problems?

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Anonymous wrote:Which parts of the West Springfield Boundary would make the most sense to move to Lee?

Start with daventry and keep moving along OKM until wshs is no longer projected to be overenrolled and lee has more middle class kids.

West Springfield is not overenrolled.

Read the post. PP noted correctly that West Springfield is projected to be over-enrolled.

And Lee is definitely under-enrolled now, and has been for years.

[Anonymous]

Poor Lee & Herndon. Nobody wants to go there.
People trying to rationalize why someone else's kid should go instead of their own.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor Lee & Herndon. Nobody wants to go there.
People trying to rationalize why someone else's kid should go instead of their own.

An unfortunate reality.

It will be interesting to see what the school board does with it all.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor Lee & Herndon. Nobody wants to go there.
People trying to rationalize why someone else's kid should go instead of their own.

I sometimes wonder if the best solution for Lee is to close it as a neighborhood school and send all the feeders elsewhere. Almost every HS on this side of the county is under-enrolled, minus Edison and WS. (And West Potomac, but they don’t directly share a border.) I know it was talked about at one point (turning Lee into an IB magnet for the county and taking IB out of the nearby schools) but decided against. If you have all these schools under capacity, maybe they just don’t need so many schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor Lee & Herndon. Nobody wants to go there.
People trying to rationalize why someone else's kid should go instead of their own.

I sometimes wonder if the best solution for Lee is to close it as a neighborhood school and send all the feeders elsewhere. Almost every HS on this side of the county is under-enrolled, minus Edison and WS. (And West Potomac, but they don’t directly share a border.) I know it was talked about at one point (turning Lee into an IB magnet for the county and taking IB out of the nearby schools) but decided against. If you have all these schools under capacity, maybe they just don’t need so many schools.

Especially, since they are getting ready to spend money to change its name.........

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Anonymous wrote:Poor Lee & Herndon. Nobody wants to go there.
People trying to rationalize why someone else's kid should go instead of their own.

An unfortunate reality.

It will be interesting to see what the school board does with it all.

I don't think Herndon is really in trouble. There is a poster on here who is obsessed with getting the poor kids out for some reason. Herndon offers a full range of activities that seem to be well supported. And, it has plenty of AP classes. And, it is certainly not underenrolled.

It is getting a renovation, too.