FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Of course they don't want feedback. It's a ruse. Surveys, town halls, publics forums, they are always a ruse. In any school system.

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Sweet summer child. You think teaching a kid who already speaks English and is low income is the same as teaching a child who:
1. Mom wasn’t educated beyond 4th grade
2. The child was effectively raised without a language for the first 4 years because the parents speak broken English to them AND their Spanish isn’t very high level either
3. Is very low income and the parents struggle to provide food, shelter and housing.

You'd be surprised. Yes, it is difficult--impossible? NO.

Go read about Ben Carson's mom.

I’m not saying ESL/immigrant kids can’t learn or do well. I’m saying the posters using Mississippi as an example for what would work in FCPS is not a good comparison. Those two children (low income English speaking and new immigrant/low income) are not the same and have different needs.

They also need intensive vocabulary development. Phonics won't do it alone.

Phonics instruction and holding back illiterate kids to give them small group intensive language instruction doesn't work?

Especially if the kids are Spanish speaking immigrants?

Mmmk.

Your arguments are just wrong and a bit anti immigrant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course they don't want feedback. It's a ruse. Surveys, town halls, publics forums, they are always a ruse. In any school system.

Guess the tough call is deciding whether to be subtle about it (better ruse) or be in your face about it like here (discourage people from bothering to give feedback).

It's fine. In due course all the Gatehouse cretins recruited by Reid will be terminated.

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Anonymous wrote:But I bet Mississippi has a more stable student population. In FCPS, we have students moving into the system at all grades at a very high rate. So many students are not here at a young age to get them on the right track.

Fairfax County is one of the wealthiest parts of the country.

Fairfax County median income is $150,000.

The Fairfax County poverty rate is 6%

The Mississippi median income is $55,000.

The Mississippi poverty rate is 18%


Fairfax County has one of the most educated populations in America. Mississippi has one of the least educated populations in the country.

93% of Fairfax residents have a high school diploma and 64% have a higher degree.

86% of Mississippi residents graduated from high school and only 24% have a college degree.



Mississippi has a very diverse population. It is 59% white, 38% black and 4% hispanic.

Fairfax County is 63% white, 11% black. 21% asian and 18% hispanic.


With its extensive resources, FCPS should be able to effectively educate all of its students, including the ESOL students.

FCPS should adopt the Mississippi model in its low performing school pyramids.


https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fairfaxcountyvirginia/PST045223

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/MS/BZA010222

Sweet summer child. You think teaching a kid who already speaks English and is low income is the same as teaching a child who:
1. Mom wasn’t educated beyond 4th grade
2. The child was effectively raised without a language for the first 4 years because the parents speak broken English to them AND their Spanish isn’t very high level either
3. Is very low income and the parents struggle to provide food, shelter and housing.

It is hard to take as credible anyone who uses the slur "sweet summer child" and who thinks huge swaths of children cannot learn due to their ethnic background.

It is hard to take someone who doesn’t seem to understand the difference between what I wrote and your comprehension of it credibly either. You think you can speak to teaching reading to ESL kids when you are unable to comprehend the VERY simple statement;

Teaching a kid who already speaks english is NOT the same as a kid who speaks little English, has little to no understanding of grammar rules and has parents who are illiterate.

It is not the same.

Mississippi is a BAD example.

Alos, sweet summer child is an IDIOM not a SLUR hon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People seem to think that these maps are the final ones. They're not. Now that Thru has held the dog-and-pony show, the staff at gatehouse is going to do what they do best - the thing they were going to do anyway, but first they had to pretend to involve the community. We'll see new and potentially radically different maps, but probably it will be right before the school board votes to approve them.

Disagree. They may take all the feedback and put out new comprehensive maps by or during the community meetings. I don’t think they could justify massive changes without community input. I anticipate teams in a way of reverted Thru proposals.

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Anonymous wrote:But I bet Mississippi has a more stable student population. In FCPS, we have students moving into the system at all grades at a very high rate. So many students are not here at a young age to get them on the right track.

Fairfax County is one of the wealthiest parts of the country.

Fairfax County median income is $150,000.

The Fairfax County poverty rate is 6%

The Mississippi median income is $55,000.

The Mississippi poverty rate is 18%


Fairfax County has one of the most educated populations in America. Mississippi has one of the least educated populations in the country.

93% of Fairfax residents have a high school diploma and 64% have a higher degree.

86% of Mississippi residents graduated from high school and only 24% have a college degree.



Mississippi has a very diverse population. It is 59% white, 38% black and 4% hispanic.

Fairfax County is 63% white, 11% black. 21% asian and 18% hispanic.


With its extensive resources, FCPS should be able to effectively educate all of its students, including the ESOL students.

FCPS should adopt the Mississippi model in its low performing school pyramids.


https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fairfaxcountyvirginia/PST045223

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/MS/BZA010222

Sweet summer child. You think teaching a kid who already speaks English and is low income is the same as teaching a child who:
1. Mom wasn’t educated beyond 4th grade
2. The child was effectively raised without a language for the first 4 years because the parents speak broken English to them AND their Spanish isn’t very high level either
3. Is very low income and the parents struggle to provide food, shelter and housing.

It is hard to take as credible anyone who uses the slur "sweet summer child" and who thinks huge swaths of children cannot learn due to their ethnic background.

It is hard to take someone who doesn’t seem to understand the difference between what I wrote and your comprehension of it credibly either. You think you can speak to teaching reading to ESL kids when you are unable to comprehend the VERY simple statement;

Teaching a kid who already speaks english is NOT the same as a kid who speaks little English, has little to no understanding of grammar rules and has parents who are illiterate.

It is not the same.

Mississippi is a BAD example.

Alos, sweet summer child is an IDIOM not a SLUR hon.

It's a slur against everyone born in Westeros during the long summer. It implies that the summer-born are naive and soft and it absolutely should not be used against ANY Westerosi!

Oh wait.

Westeros isn't real.

Carry on.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

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.

We have a whole facilities and planning dept with full-time staff (something smaller systems don't have) yet we are paying outside consultants to do their work.

The waste is flagrant.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

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.

We have a whole facilities and planning dept with full-time staff (something smaller systems don't have) yet we are paying outside consultants to do their work.

The waste is flagrant.

I hope they at least have the planning department comb through the maps to clean up the nonsensical errors (Katherine Johnson and Fairfax High School differ by one SPA, making Frost a split feeder between Woodson/Fairfax, for example) instead of wasting the public’s time lobbying to get them fixed.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

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.

We have a whole facilities and planning dept with full-time staff (something smaller systems don't have) yet we are paying outside consultants to do their work.

The waste is flagrant.

This! They should have done this in house with the ample staff.

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No matter how much Lewis parents speak out about their positive experiences at the school, people here and on social media shout about how horrible the school is because Lewis has 1/3 of its population learning English, which results in overall lower test scores. Parents don't want to send their kids to school with such a high percentage of English learners, frightened that their kids will somehow catch the low test scores too, like some sort of nasty flu bug.

That's not the reason. The problem is there are a finite number of teaching resources at a school, and if they're all tied up teaching a bunch of kids basic English skills, and dealing with disciplinary problems, they're not teaching the kids who already speak English and don't have disciplinary problems.

Lewis is not the only school dealing with this. Maybe, pushing Keys-Gamarra's special program there was less than helpful.
Nearby Edison has high FARMS, too. What is the difference?

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.

Just maybe, people don't like a school focused on "social justice?"

Bingo. It's truly astounding that anyone ever thought that would be a good idea. What a joke.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:But I bet Mississippi has a more stable student population. In FCPS, we have students moving into the system at all grades at a very high rate. So many students are not here at a young age to get them on the right track.

Fairfax County is one of the wealthiest parts of the country.

Fairfax County median income is $150,000.

The Fairfax County poverty rate is 6%

The Mississippi median income is $55,000.

The Mississippi poverty rate is 18%


Fairfax County has one of the most educated populations in America. Mississippi has one of the least educated populations in the country.

93% of Fairfax residents have a high school diploma and 64% have a higher degree.

86% of Mississippi residents graduated from high school and only 24% have a college degree.



Mississippi has a very diverse population. It is 59% white, 38% black and 4% hispanic.

Fairfax County is 63% white, 11% black. 21% asian and 18% hispanic.


With its extensive resources, FCPS should be able to effectively educate all of its students, including the ESOL students.

FCPS should adopt the Mississippi model in its low performing school pyramids.


https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fairfaxcountyvirginia/PST045223

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/MS/BZA010222

Sweet summer child. You think teaching a kid who already speaks English and is low income is the same as teaching a child who:
1. Mom wasn’t educated beyond 4th grade
2. The child was effectively raised without a language for the first 4 years because the parents speak broken English to them AND their Spanish isn’t very high level either
3. Is very low income and the parents struggle to provide food, shelter and housing.

It is hard to take as credible anyone who uses the slur "sweet summer child" and who thinks huge swaths of children cannot learn due to their ethnic background.

It is hard to take someone who doesn’t seem to understand the difference between what I wrote and your comprehension of it credibly either. You think you can speak to teaching reading to ESL kids when you are unable to comprehend the VERY simple statement;

Teaching a kid who already speaks english is NOT the same as a kid who speaks little English, has little to no understanding of grammar rules and has parents who are illiterate.

It is not the same.

Mississippi is a BAD example.

Alos, sweet summer child is an IDIOM not a SLUR hon.

I have taught both, including migrant kids whose families came over the border for farm work, with intermittent schooling and uneducated, illiterate parents, as well as kids involved in neighborhood gangs.

You grossly underestimate the potential of these kids.

Kids rise to your expectations. Unfortunately, when you set the har so low you get exactly what you want.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way that the families with kids moving to South Lakes are going to accept that. At the very least, they are not going to want the IB program. Most are happy at Chantilly and will not want to move, even if SLHS was AP, but the IB is most likely a deal breaker.

From a SLHS perspective, adding 100 more kids who are likely to participate in IB would be great, it would increase the pool of kids and increase the chance that the HL classes are offered because there might be more interest. If this move does happen, I expect more principal placing into Oakton and Langley for AP and language purposes.

People don't want to move from AP to IB.

Chantilly kids would get moved to Westfield and Oakton (both AP), and some Westfield families would move to South Lakes. I don’t think anyone at Chantilly would be moved to South Lakes.

Pupil placing into Langley probably won’t be available much longer as it will be over 100% capacity with the reassignment of 200 McLean kids.

Oak Hill kids who currently attend Chantilly were moved to Fox Mill in one of the first two meetings. That shifted them to SLHS. I don't think that necessarily shows up in the third meeting slides because they would have been accounted for in an earlier presentation.

This is correct. People don't seem to understand how to interpret these maps. The changes from the first two are already incorporated into the third. They just aren't highlighting proposed new ES boundaries if the slide is focused on an MS or HS. But they are on there if you look at the overall boundary map.

Can you look at p. 14 of the 5/5 presentation and tell me how anyone at Chantilly is getting moved to South Lakes? I only see Chantilly kids moving to Westfield and Oakton, and no changes to South Lakes incorporated into that map!

One of the April meetings moved Oak Hill kids to Fox Mill. Those kids are already included in the SLHS count for the 5/5 slides which only take into consideration the new shifts.

You are mistaken. Those Oak Hill kids moving to Fox Mill per April slides are currently going to Carson/Westfield. These are Emeral Chase and some Bradley Farm HOA kids.

No kids from Chantilly/Oakton are moving to SLHS.

NONE.

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)

Sorry if I came across as angry.

I live in the South Lakes boundary and am tired of the constant bashing of SLHS.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way that the families with kids moving to South Lakes are going to accept that. At the very least, they are not going to want the IB program. Most are happy at Chantilly and will not want to move, even if SLHS was AP, but the IB is most likely a deal breaker.

From a SLHS perspective, adding 100 more kids who are likely to participate in IB would be great, it would increase the pool of kids and increase the chance that the HL classes are offered because there might be more interest. If this move does happen, I expect more principal placing into Oakton and Langley for AP and language purposes.

People don't want to move from AP to IB.

Chantilly kids would get moved to Westfield and Oakton (both AP), and some Westfield families would move to South Lakes. I don’t think anyone at Chantilly would be moved to South Lakes.

Pupil placing into Langley probably won’t be available much longer as it will be over 100% capacity with the reassignment of 200 McLean kids.

Oak Hill kids who currently attend Chantilly were moved to Fox Mill in one of the first two meetings. That shifted them to SLHS. I don't think that necessarily shows up in the third meeting slides because they would have been accounted for in an earlier presentation.

This is correct. People don't seem to understand how to interpret these maps. The changes from the first two are already incorporated into the third. They just aren't highlighting proposed new ES boundaries if the slide is focused on an MS or HS. But they are on there if you look at the overall boundary map.

Can you look at p. 14 of the 5/5 presentation and tell me how anyone at Chantilly is getting moved to South Lakes? I only see Chantilly kids moving to Westfield and Oakton, and no changes to South Lakes incorporated into that map!

One of the April meetings moved Oak Hill kids to Fox Mill. Those kids are already included in the SLHS count for the 5/5 slides which only take into consideration the new shifts.

You are mistaken. Those Oak Hill kids moving to Fox Mill per April slides are currently going to Carson/Westfield. These are Emeral Chase and some Bradley Farm HOA kids.

No kids from Chantilly/Oakton are moving to SLHS.

NONE.

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)

Sorry if I came across as angry.

I live in the South Lakes boundary and am tired of the constant bashing of SLHS.

You're wrong though - they are kids from Chantilly Highlands right behind the Franklin Farm shopping Center and they currently go to Franklin/Chantilly.

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Anonymous wrote:But I bet Mississippi has a more stable student population. In FCPS, we have students moving into the system at all grades at a very high rate. So many students are not here at a young age to get them on the right track.

Fairfax County is one of the wealthiest parts of the country.

Fairfax County median income is $150,000.

The Fairfax County poverty rate is 6%

The Mississippi median income is $55,000.

The Mississippi poverty rate is 18%


Fairfax County has one of the most educated populations in America. Mississippi has one of the least educated populations in the country.

93% of Fairfax residents have a high school diploma and 64% have a higher degree.

86% of Mississippi residents graduated from high school and only 24% have a college degree.



Mississippi has a very diverse population. It is 59% white, 38% black and 4% hispanic.

Fairfax County is 63% white, 11% black. 21% asian and 18% hispanic.


With its extensive resources, FCPS should be able to effectively educate all of its students, including the ESOL students.

FCPS should adopt the Mississippi model in its low performing school pyramids.


https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fairfaxcountyvirginia/PST045223

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/MS/BZA010222

Sweet summer child. You think teaching a kid who already speaks English and is low income is the same as teaching a child who:
1. Mom wasn’t educated beyond 4th grade
2. The child was effectively raised without a language for the first 4 years because the parents speak broken English to them AND their Spanish isn’t very high level either
3. Is very low income and the parents struggle to provide food, shelter and housing.

It is hard to take as credible anyone who uses the slur "sweet summer child" and who thinks huge swaths of children cannot learn due to their ethnic background.

It is hard to take someone who doesn’t seem to understand the difference between what I wrote and your comprehension of it credibly either. You think you can speak to teaching reading to ESL kids when you are unable to comprehend the VERY simple statement;

Teaching a kid who already speaks english is NOT the same as a kid who speaks little English, has little to no understanding of grammar rules and has parents who are illiterate.

It is not the same.

Mississippi is a BAD example.

Alos, sweet summer child is an IDIOM not a SLUR hon.

I have taught both, including migrant kids whose families came over the border for farm work, with intermittent schooling and uneducated, illiterate parents, as well as kids involved in neighborhood gangs.

You grossly underestimate the potential of these kids.

Kids rise to your expectations. Unfortunately, when you set the har so low you get exactly what you want.

You are really jumping to conclusions here. I don’t think you have taught for a while. This kind of thinking (very prevalent in the late 90 and early aughts) went out of favor because it didn’t work. It blames teacher expectations for being the root cause of everything and is a big factor in our current teacher shortage (See Michelle Rhee as an example of a leader who followed this philosophy).

Yes migrant/immigrant kids can and do learn, but given your experience, you should know that esl Kids get different instruction and need different approaches than native English speakers do. You are mixing the need for different instruction with teacher expectations. These are different things. This is exactly why ESL kids get ESL services. Taking things that work in Mississippi and applying them to the esp population is not a guarantee for success because the kids need different things.

Im sure the teachers at Lewis would vastly disagree with you that it is their expectations that keep the school scoring low on tests. From their school board rep, to posters here, everyone has said they are a very dedicated group of people. Except you.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way that the families with kids moving to South Lakes are going to accept that. At the very least, they are not going to want the IB program. Most are happy at Chantilly and will not want to move, even if SLHS was AP, but the IB is most likely a deal breaker.

From a SLHS perspective, adding 100 more kids who are likely to participate in IB would be great, it would increase the pool of kids and increase the chance that the HL classes are offered because there might be more interest. If this move does happen, I expect more principal placing into Oakton and Langley for AP and language purposes.

People don't want to move from AP to IB.

Chantilly kids would get moved to Westfield and Oakton (both AP), and some Westfield families would move to South Lakes. I don’t think anyone at Chantilly would be moved to South Lakes.

Pupil placing into Langley probably won’t be available much longer as it will be over 100% capacity with the reassignment of 200 McLean kids.

Oak Hill kids who currently attend Chantilly were moved to Fox Mill in one of the first two meetings. That shifted them to SLHS. I don't think that necessarily shows up in the third meeting slides because they would have been accounted for in an earlier presentation.

This is correct. People don't seem to understand how to interpret these maps. The changes from the first two are already incorporated into the third. They just aren't highlighting proposed new ES boundaries if the slide is focused on an MS or HS. But they are on there if you look at the overall boundary map.

Can you look at p. 14 of the 5/5 presentation and tell me how anyone at Chantilly is getting moved to South Lakes? I only see Chantilly kids moving to Westfield and Oakton, and no changes to South Lakes incorporated into that map!

One of the April meetings moved Oak Hill kids to Fox Mill. Those kids are already included in the SLHS count for the 5/5 slides which only take into consideration the new shifts.

You are mistaken. Those Oak Hill kids moving to Fox Mill per April slides are currently going to Carson/Westfield. These are Emeral Chase and some Bradley Farm HOA kids.

No kids from Chantilly/Oakton are moving to SLHS.

NONE.

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)

Sorry if I came across as angry.

I live in the South Lakes boundary and am tired of the constant bashing of SLHS.

We live in the South Lakes boundaries and are looking into Principal PLacing when DC is ready for high school. The IB program, especially one that does not offer the HL classes in the sciences, is not a good fit for our child. We know that the HL classes are not offered because we have neighbors with kids at SLHS who told use that their kid has not been able to take the HL classes because there was not enough interest.

It isn’t bashing, it is fact. We want our DC to attend a school that can offer a challenging academic path forward and SLHS is not able to do that. There is a reason that there are a large number of kids transfering out of SLHS. It is not the kids, it is not the Teachers, it is the lack of classes that are readily available elsewhere.