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Anonymous
ESL rate is twice as high at Lewis, 12% higher FR Lunch at Lewis. That ESL rate is the back breaker. |
Anonymous
Edison got a nice renovation and Lewis got a cut-rate, cheap renovation years earlier. Edison has an Academy program and a Global STEM program, not the social justice "leadership" program pushed by silly Keys-Gamarra. The sports teams at Edison are stronger. The nicest neighborhoods that feed into Edison, like Wilton Woods and Kingstowne, are nicer than just about anything that feeds into Lewis. Edison doesn't share a border with a much lower FARMS school like Lewis does, so you don't have people constantly pointing out the virtues of one of its neighboring schools. Some people will avoid Edison just like they would Lewis, but Edison is in the running, like Hayfield or West Potomac. Lewis and Mount Vernon are the two schools most people really try to avoid. |
Anonymous
Just maybe, people don't like a school focused on "social justice?" |
Anonymous
Strangely enough, there are Oak Hill parents with kids at Chantilly who disagree with your strongly worded post. They are discussing the move from Chantilly to SLHS. They don't go to Westfield right now. (shurgs) |
Anonymous
I think you are discussing two different things. No Oak Hill elementary school boundary kids who currently go to Chantilly are being redistricted to South Lakes according to THRU. Some are currently slated to go to Oakton, according to THRU--which took two street out of a neighborhood going to Chantilly. Some kids who currently are in Oak Hill Elem. boundary are being shifted to Fox Mill and sent to South Lakes from Westfield--not Chantilly. Perhaps, you are thinking of people who live in Oak Hill who live in other elementary neighborhoods. But, none are being sent from Chantilly to South Lakes according to the THRU maps or the charts. Please advise of us of the neighborhoods you are talking about. |
Anonymous
The Rolling Valley neighborhood outside the parkway that feeds into Lewis is very nice. |
Anonymous
My child's at Lewis. I'm not seeing teachers tied up with ELL students. I'm not seeing disciplinary problems. I'm actively involved in the community and have found it delightful. The false claims of disciplinary problems and less-dedicated teachers perpetuates the myth of Lewis as a less-desirable school. The information proclaimed on this forum and the real-life experience are far different. But then again, no amount of discussion here seems to penetrate the bigoted bubble of this forum. |
Anonymous
It's great you're happy there and you child is having a good experience. You won't change anyone's mind on this board about Lewis and it's probably not worth the effort to try. Just be glad you're at a school you are happy with. |
Anonymous
There it is. Step 2 from the boundary change proponents’ playbook. 1. Bring up race at the school in an earlier post. 2. Call boundary change opponents bigots or racist. I see you went with bigot this time. You’re so transparent and do a ton of damage to your cause when you post falsehoods. Do better. |
Anonymous
| Where do you find the Student Planning Areas (SPAs) for the various neighborhoods/school zones around the county? It keeps getting referenced in the BRAC pdfs but I can't seem to find them on the FCPS site. Thank you! |
Anonymous
You have to cobble them together through various boundary study reports. The only ones I’m aware of are McLean, Justice, and the Coates study, so only small pockets of the county are available. |
Anonymous
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There are a number of HS were there are schools within schools. Lewis, Herndon, and South Lakes seem to fall into this area. The students who are taking Honors or AP/IB classes have different experiences then kids in the Gen Ed classes. Many families have good to great experiences at those schools but that is because they are in that smaller school part of the school. And while the kids in the AP/IB programs have good experiences, they do have fewer class choices because the number of the kids who want to take those classes are smaller. I know that means that there are fewer HL classes offered at the IB schools or they are offered every few years instead of every year. Schools that have a larger percentage of kids in AP/IB classes have more offerings and more choices.
Our neighbors have all had good experiences at SLHS but when we ask about the HL science classes, they are not offered. We have friends who love Herndon HS but their kids are Humanities kids. We also know w bunch of people who have principal placed to Langley and Oakton in order to gain access to the higher-level math and science classes. I can understand people not wanting to shift from a school with many offerings and choices because of a larger population taking those classes to a school that has fewer choices. I understand that people have had good experiences at those schools but if you have a kid who you think is going to want Physics C and Calculus BC, you want them at a school were those classes are reliably offered and many times that is not a high FARMs school. |
Anonymous
DP. Just to elaborate, when FCPS staff was primarily responsible for other boundary studies (Kent Gardens in the McLean pyramid, Parklawn in the Justice pyramid, and Coates in the Westfield pyramid), they shared maps that allowed people to see the SPAs in those areas. It's somewhat telling that the maps that Thru is releasing in connection with the comprehensive review don't show the SPAs, although it's clear the proposals to move certain areas reflect proposals to move SPAs. The bottom line is we're paying a consultant more to do things staff could do, and in return the public gets less information about what's going on. And, if you've been attention you can see that BRAC members are frustrated with the information they are (and aren't) being provided, and then you end up with people confused, for example, about whether the Thru proposals would involve sending kids from Chantilly to South Lakes (as opposed to Westfield and Oakton). It's what you'd expect from Reid. She makes a big show about pretending she wants to be transparent, but she really isn't. |
Anonymous
| I've reviewed the BRAC slides, and I'm confused about the numbers. There are some instances where students are being moved from one elementary school to another, and those elementary schools are in different middle school/high school pyramids. The next slide shows how that move will affect middle schools. But then they don't show how that will affect the high school numbers. Wouldn't that be the case as well -- that the high school numbers will change? |
Anonymous
It would depend on the feeder patterns. But if they show how a change in one elementary school to another would affect the middle schools, and each of those middle schools only feeds to one high school, the change at the ES level would clearly affect the high school numbers as well. In other cases, where the middle schools are split feeders, you could theoretically have a change in one elementary school to another that would affect the middle school assignments but not the high school assignments. It would have been better if the presentations included additional maps with more detail. My guess is they tried to limit the number of slides in the decks because they wanted to move quickly through the presentations to the BRAC. The flip side, of course, is that it's unlikely all the BRAC members understood the implications of what they were being shown. This is what happens when the goal isto be able to say that an advisory committee was part of the process rather than really get the benefit of their input. |