FCPS' plans to address concerns at under-enrolled and over-enrolled schools.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

Lewis’s problem is not that they have a Democrat representing them on the school board. It’s that they have the weakest, laziest Democrat on the school board representing them in sleepy Marcia St. John-Cunning. If they had someone like Ricardy Anderson representing them, Lewis would be getting a lot more attention.

Conversely, if Lewis miraculously had a GOP-endorsed school board member representing them, they would let Lewis stew in its own juices and spend all their time blaming the school’s demographics on Biden’s immigration policies. And then whatever initiatives they might champion would be quickly shot down by the Democratic majority on the board.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

Also, many of the Lewis zoned homes don't vote in the Franconia district...because of the messed up district lines.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

This would be a Herculean effort in such a Democratic district. This shouldn't even be a partisan issue. The current Franconia School Member should clearly explain why she is not advocating for IB to be replaced with AP at Lewis (the IB diploma numbers have been terrible for years and it drives pupil placement). Why she is not advocating for AAP at Key. Why she is not advocating to send the Saratoga kids to Springfield Estates for AAP. These things have been pointed out before with no movement.

And as far a purchasing a home - it is wrong to tell people that they bought in the wrong part of the county and therefore should expect a bad school. In a county system you should not have schools that are so different right next to each other. Simply starting with enrollment- West Springfield is close to twice the size as Lewis. ESL numbers are 35% at Lewis and around 5% at WS. When Gambrill and Daventry were moved to West Springfield, those were literally the wealthiest areas sending kids to Lee and they moved them to a wealthier school. They knew what the consequences would be. I don't expect WS and Lewis to be exactly the same, but the difference has become ridiculous.

It is not wrong, that’s just the way it is. If you want equal schools, you’re talking about a much different and degraded school experience. You’re talking about having a really bad school system.

If you want a better school pyramid, you always have the option to vote with your feet and move. Until then, gtfoh trying to push changes for other people’s kids.

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And the Franconia member's children went through Edison as did the previous members.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

This would be a Herculean effort in such a Democratic district. This shouldn't even be a partisan issue. The current Franconia School Member should clearly explain why she is not advocating for IB to be replaced with AP at Lewis (the IB diploma numbers have been terrible for years and it drives pupil placement). Why she is not advocating for AAP at Key. Why she is not advocating to send the Saratoga kids to Springfield Estates for AAP. These things have been pointed out before with no movement.

And as far a purchasing a home - it is wrong to tell people that they bought in the wrong part of the county and therefore should expect a bad school. In a county system you should not have schools that are so different right next to each other. Simply starting with enrollment- West Springfield is close to twice the size as Lewis. ESL numbers are 35% at Lewis and around 5% at WS. When Gambrill and Daventry were moved to West Springfield, those were literally the wealthiest areas sending kids to Lee and they moved them to a wealthier school. They knew what the consequences would be. I don't expect WS and Lewis to be exactly the same, but the difference has become ridiculous.

It is not wrong, that’s just the way it is. If you want equal schools, you’re talking about a much different and degraded school experience. You’re talking about having a really bad school system.

If you want a better school pyramid, you always have the option to vote with your feet and move. Until then, gtfoh trying to push changes for other people’s kids.

But through FCPS policies and boundary changes, my kids were impacted. And I have lived here a very long time. So you can gtfoh.

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It will be interesting to see what happens when the border is opened again and the county FARMs and ESOL numbers climb even higher. That will push the boundary change conversation in Lewis and Herndons favor I would think.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

Lewis’s problem is not that they have a Democrat representing them on the school board. It’s that they have the weakest, laziest Democrat on the school board representing them in sleepy Marcia St. John-Cunning. If they had someone like Ricardy Anderson representing them, Lewis would be getting a lot more attention.

Conversely, if Lewis miraculously had a GOP-endorsed school board member representing them, they would let Lewis stew in its own juices and spend all their time blaming the school’s demographics on Biden’s immigration policies. And then whatever initiatives they might champion would be quickly shot down by the Democratic majority on the board.

I agree with this. I had to watch quite a few school board meetings during the boundary review and even on other issues, Ricardy Anderson doesn't get stuff go. She just keeps bringing things back up and really advocates for her community. Lewis needs a strong school board advocate to push forward the curriculum changes that are needed to make that school more attractive to those who are zoned for it. Adding a social justice academy instead of a strong slate of AP classes or a good STEAM program just isn't going to cut it.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

Lewis’s problem is not that they have a Democrat representing them on the school board. It’s that they have the weakest, laziest Democrat on the school board representing them in sleepy Marcia St. John-Cunning. If they had someone like Ricardy Anderson representing them, Lewis would be getting a lot more attention.

Conversely, if Lewis miraculously had a GOP-endorsed school board member representing them, they would let Lewis stew in its own juices and spend all their time blaming the school’s demographics on Biden’s immigration policies. And then whatever initiatives they might champion would be quickly shot down by the Democratic majority on the board.

I agree with this. I had to watch quite a few school board meetings during the boundary review and even on other issues, Ricardy Anderson doesn't get stuff go. She just keeps bringing things back up and really advocates for her community. Lewis needs a strong school board advocate to push forward the curriculum changes that are needed to make that school more attractive to those who are zoned for it. Adding a social justice academy instead of a strong slate of AP classes or a good STEAM program just isn't going to cut it.

lol what even is a social justice academy? Learn how to protest?

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

This would be a Herculean effort in such a Democratic district. This shouldn't even be a partisan issue. The current Franconia School Member should clearly explain why she is not advocating for IB to be replaced with AP at Lewis (the IB diploma numbers have been terrible for years and it drives pupil placement). Why she is not advocating for AAP at Key. Why she is not advocating to send the Saratoga kids to Springfield Estates for AAP. These things have been pointed out before with no movement.

And as far a purchasing a home - it is wrong to tell people that they bought in the wrong part of the county and therefore should expect a bad school. In a county system you should not have schools that are so different right next to each other. Simply starting with enrollment- West Springfield is close to twice the size as Lewis. ESL numbers are 35% at Lewis and around 5% at WS. When Gambrill and Daventry were moved to West Springfield, those were literally the wealthiest areas sending kids to Lee and they moved them to a wealthier school. They knew what the consequences would be. I don't expect WS and Lewis to be exactly the same, but the difference has become ridiculous.

Gambrill is not the wealthiest area.

That was also over 20 years ago. There is not a single family currently attending either Lewis or West Springfield who had school aged kids from that era. 20 plus years is a full generation ago.

At some point, people need to stop beating that 25 year old horse and move in to the current reality.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

Lewis’s problem is not that they have a Democrat representing them on the school board. It’s that they have the weakest, laziest Democrat on the school board representing them in sleepy Marcia St. John-Cunning. If they had someone like Ricardy Anderson representing them, Lewis would be getting a lot more attention.

Conversely, if Lewis miraculously had a GOP-endorsed school board member representing them, they would let Lewis stew in its own juices and spend all their time blaming the school’s demographics on Biden’s immigration policies. And then whatever initiatives they might champion would be quickly shot down by the Democratic majority on the board.

You say that, but outcomes of a 100% democrat school board over the past few cycles speak for itself.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

Also, many of the Lewis zoned homes don't vote in the Franconia district...because of the messed up district lines.

That is due to board of supervisor last minute gerrymandering to try to unseat the onky GOP elected official in all of northern Virginia, Pat Herrity.

Gerrymandering starts at home and the students pay the price.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

Lewis’s problem is not that they have a Democrat representing them on the school board. It’s that they have the weakest, laziest Democrat on the school board representing them in sleepy Marcia St. John-Cunning. If they had someone like Ricardy Anderson representing them, Lewis would be getting a lot more attention.

Conversely, if Lewis miraculously had a GOP-endorsed school board member representing them, they would let Lewis stew in its own juices and spend all their time blaming the school’s demographics on Biden’s immigration policies. And then whatever initiatives they might champion would be quickly shot down by the Democratic majority on the board.

I agree with this. I had to watch quite a few school board meetings during the boundary review and even on other issues, Ricardy Anderson doesn't get stuff go. She just keeps bringing things back up and really advocates for her community. Lewis needs a strong school board advocate to push forward the curriculum changes that are needed to make that school more attractive to those who are zoned for it. Adding a social justice academy instead of a strong slate of AP classes or a good STEAM program just isn't going to cut it.

lol what even is a social justice academy? Learn how to protest?

Yes.

And teaching kids demicratic causes.

It is purely a partisan program.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

Lewis’s problem is not that they have a Democrat representing them on the school board. It’s that they have the weakest, laziest Democrat on the school board representing them in sleepy Marcia St. John-Cunning. If they had someone like Ricardy Anderson representing them, Lewis would be getting a lot more attention.

Conversely, if Lewis miraculously had a GOP-endorsed school board member representing them, they would let Lewis stew in its own juices and spend all their time blaming the school’s demographics on Biden’s immigration policies. And then whatever initiatives they might champion would be quickly shot down by the Democratic majority on the board.

I agree with this. I had to watch quite a few school board meetings during the boundary review and even on other issues, Ricardy Anderson doesn't get stuff go. She just keeps bringing things back up and really advocates for her community. Lewis needs a strong school board advocate to push forward the curriculum changes that are needed to make that school more attractive to those who are zoned for it. Adding a social justice academy instead of a strong slate of AP classes or a good STEAM program just isn't going to cut it.

St. John-Cunning is singularly unimpressive. All she does is periodically (and I mean like once every three months) make some impassioned statement callling other people racist and then retreat back into her torpor.

Anderson, on the other hand, tries to figure out what her schools need and the people in her district want. And then she keeps pushing, even when other board members throw up roadblocks. Prime examples are the boundary changes to reduce the enrollments at Glasgow and Parklawn and the creation of AAP centers in the Annandale pyramid (Poe MS and North Springfield ES). She got kids moved from Glasgow to Poe in the last review even when BRAC overlooked them at first, and she's made sure further changes to move more kids to Poe and Holmes are on the table. The community may push back and say they don't support those changes, but they will have had a chance to weigh in, and then they will have to live with the consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

Lewis’s problem is not that they have a Democrat representing them on the school board. It’s that they have the weakest, laziest Democrat on the school board representing them in sleepy Marcia St. John-Cunning. If they had someone like Ricardy Anderson representing them, Lewis would be getting a lot more attention.

Conversely, if Lewis miraculously had a GOP-endorsed school board member representing them, they would let Lewis stew in its own juices and spend all their time blaming the school’s demographics on Biden’s immigration policies. And then whatever initiatives they might champion would be quickly shot down by the Democratic majority on the board.

You say that, but outcomes of a 100% democrat school board over the past few cycles speak for itself.

When you use "democrat" as a substitute adjective for "Democratic" you're basically proclaiming yourself a MAGA, and that's never going to get your candidates elected here.

Realistically, better Democratic candidates are needed, not fantasies that some Pat Herrity-equivalent on the School Board is ever going to go out of their way to do anything for people at schools like Lewis.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.

Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.

Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board. Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady. And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in. Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic. They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved, and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.

Lewis’s problem is not that they have a Democrat representing them on the school board. It’s that they have the weakest, laziest Democrat on the school board representing them in sleepy Marcia St. John-Cunning. If they had someone like Ricardy Anderson representing them, Lewis would be getting a lot more attention.

Conversely, if Lewis miraculously had a GOP-endorsed school board member representing them, they would let Lewis stew in its own juices and spend all their time blaming the school’s demographics on Biden’s immigration policies. And then whatever initiatives they might champion would be quickly shot down by the Democratic majority on the board.

I agree with this. I had to watch quite a few school board meetings during the boundary review and even on other issues, Ricardy Anderson doesn't get stuff go. She just keeps bringing things back up and really advocates for her community. Lewis needs a strong school board advocate to push forward the curriculum changes that are needed to make that school more attractive to those who are zoned for it. Adding a social justice academy instead of a strong slate of AP classes or a good STEAM program just isn't going to cut it.

St. John-Cunning is singularly unimpressive. All she does is periodically (and I mean like once every three months) make some impassioned statement callling other people racist and then retreat back into her torpor.

Anderson, on the other hand, tries to figure out what her schools need and the people in her district want. And then she keeps pushing, even when other board members throw up roadblocks. Prime examples are the boundary changes to reduce the enrollments at Glasgow and Parklawn and the creation of AAP centers in the Annandale pyramid (Poe MS and North Springfield ES). She got kids moved from Glasgow to Poe in the last review even when BRAC overlooked them at first, and she's made sure further changes to move more kids to Poe and Holmes are on the table. The community may push back and say they don't support those changes, but they will have had a chance to weigh in, and then they will have to live with the consequences.

+1 to this. I’ve emailed the Franconia reps office numerous times asking what changes she has planned to help turn Key and Lewis around (note: not talking about the Boundary review, I’m talking about programming changes). It took months to get a response and all it talked about was the Leadership program. I asked how many kids were involved in the program and ……crickets……..
Way to listen to your constituents