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Anonymous
I assumed it was the work of a clever poster. FCPS doesn’t refer to “underperforming schools.” |
Anonymous
| I can’t find the post with the “leaked maps” info— can anyone kindly tell me the the date/timestamp for it? |
Anonymous
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1255416.page?fbclid=IwY2xjawIYWYdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHel1JOIwXZE4MhilDTYBqmlJRtwychHU2yf0bOFf6I51illMd9C-w2uTGQ_aem_KMXSPqtGQVIcyMIZf9yWGQ |
Anonymous
Many classrooms have been changed to offices, Leadership academy, interagency and other programs. They had to put all the theater costumes and supplies in shipping container outside because of lack of space. Also the place is falling apart. It hasn’t had a substantial “renovation” since who knows when, cracks on the walls, buckled tiles, plumbing that’s as likely to squirt you as it is to work properly and when I was there last year I felt sick every day I was in the building and miraculously better when not in the building, but any mention of mold in the clearly dirty air vent got shut down immediately. Tl;dr it’s not the mid-2000s anymore. |
Anonymous
There are no leaked maps, just someone trolling. |
Anonymous
To WSHS? Most of Keene Mill is miles away from WSHS. |
Anonymous
Parents will flip out if FCPS moves them from a high performing neighborhood school less than 10 minutes away, which does not feel crowded because the newly renovated classrooms are spacious and the overcapacity translates to only 1 or 2 additional students per classroom, that families actively selected knowing the size of the high school, to a low performing school across town over 20-25 minutes away, in an unrenivated building that currently feels crowded, where the rezoning would put the new school far over capacity, more crowded than their neighborhood school due to smaller classrooms and hallways. What about Key's capacity? Can they support an extra 250+ students without overcrowding? |
Anonymous
It translates to only 1-2 students per classroom, so no, it is not overcrowded. |
Anonymous
If 1.3 miles is miles and miles sure. From what I can tell, part of cardinal forest goes to Keene Mill. Almost all of Keene mill is walk zone to Irving. The thought of having kids go from Keene mill to Key when they share a field with Irving is ridiculous. If they decide to split feeder Irving, that would create, not eliminate a split feeder. |
Anonymous
Yeah, no. When they have the same programs at all the schools you can limit this. We are stuck at an IB school and would strongly prefer AP. As long as FCPS insists on continuing a program 90% of the kids are not using, then FCPS can suck up kids transferring out. IB is meant to be a diploma path not an ala carte program. Kids taking a few IB classes and tests is not what the program was meant to be. Hardly anyone completes the diploma. Remove IB and then you can make a case for limiting transfers. |
Anonymous
If you look at the BRAC committee, all of the superintendent special interest groups (roughly half the committee) are selected based of DEI requirements/One Fairfax. Some, like the special ed reps and military family reps make perfect sense as they have some unique education issues that are tied to rezoning. Others, such as the lbgtq representatives, should not be given special consideration or an elevated voice in the rezoning process, but are there just for "equity" |
Anonymous
Annandale and McLean are older than Lewis and their next renovations should precede Lewis. Lewis shouldn’t leapfrog them in the next queue just because it might make the school more palatable to West Springfield families. All three got cheap “renovations” around 2005 that were far less extensive than the later renovations of schools built in the 1960s. Honestly, sending some WS families to Lewis so they can experience those conditions first-hand might have a silver lining. Maybe then more people would object when dolts on the School Board like Karl Frisch want to waste $85 million on a new school in Dunn Loring for which there is no need - all while the needs of existing schools go unmet. |
Anonymous
Not a clever poster. FCPS doesn’t do resolutions. |
Anonymous
To me, the giveaway was the claim that FCPS was going to move three more ES (Bren Mar Park, Weyanoke, and Hunt Valley) into Lewis. It may be under-enrolled but it can’t possibly take on three more feeders. |
Anonymous
But arguing that Hunt Valley should be moved past 5 other WSHS zoned elementary schools all the way to Lewis completely destroys any argument you have. But I also don’t trust or believe Reid and I’m sure she already has a plan and will do what she wants. "Lewis is not the closest or second closest HS to HVES, and HVES is not the closest or second closest WSHS pyramid ES to Lewis, so it would not make sense to move it to Lewis." Honestly don’t know why the HVES rumor started. It physically cannot be all of HVES. Lewis has ~230 extra seats right now. HVES is the largest ES in the WSHS pyramid and contributes ~500 HS students to WSHS. They are not going to move 500 kids into 230 seats. It’s that simple. Lewis current enrollment - 1631 Lewis design capacity (CIP) - 2139 Room for 508 more students. The number you are using is Program Capacity (the one that gives you 230 available seats), but that can grow or shrink. The design capacity was expanded in the 2005 timeframe at the same time they ended up moving out over three hundred students in the wake of South County opening. In the 2005 timeframe Lee had around 2100 students. So they expanded it and then immediately moved out students so that the expansion was wasted. But they can fix that now. County did a similar thing with Springfield Estates. It was overcrowded because of the AAP program. They expanded it to hold all of those students, then turned around and opened another AAP center in the Edison pyramid and pulling students away from Springfield Estates, wasting the expansion. This county has been a terrible steward of our tax dollars. My point is that moving the entirety of HVES is not feasible. Adding 500 kids to Lewis puts it at 113% program capacity and 100% design capacity. Why set up overcrowding? They’re more likely to nibble at the edges. Or move a smaller, closer school like WSES. WS is currently well over its Design Capacity. Parents will flip out if FCPS moves them from a high performing neighborhood school less than 10 minutes away, which does not feel crowded because the newly renovated classrooms are spacious and the overcapacity translates to only 1 or 2 additional students per classroom, that families actively selected knowing the size of the high school, to a low performing school across town over 20-25 minutes away, in an unrenivated building that currently feels crowded, where the rezoning ould put the new school far over capacity, more crowded than their neighborhood school due to smaller classrooms and hallways. Can they support an extra 250+ students without overcrowding? All of the above. There is no room in a crumbling, low performing HS for HVES students. Busses and student drivers going through the Mixing Bowl during both rush hours, no available student parking at Lewis, no AP or high level courses for students at Lewis. Lewis has been low performing for years, moving high performing students in to prop it up is Reid's solution? |