Hearing Testimony on FCPS Proposed CIP
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Anonymous
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Looks like the testimony was mostly from parents asking for two boundary changes (another argued against more artificial turf fields until additional studies done on the health/environmental impact).
1) Move the part of Rolling Valley ES zoned for Key/Lee to Irving/West Springfield 2) Move the Maymont neighborhood in Vienna from Westbriar/Kilmer/Marshall to Colvin Run (and then presumably to Cooper/Langley or Longfellow/McLean). How can FCPS move more kids out of under-enrolled Lee without moving others at Irving/West Springfield to Key/Lee, and why would FCPS move the wealthiest single-family neighborhood in the Marshall HS district to another, wealthier pyramid? |
Anonymous
| Is that the only hearing on the CIP? |
Anonymous
Yes. |
Anonymous
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Irving is under enrolled and WSHS is normally under capacity and it only full due to renovations. By the time those kids get to high school WSHS will be under enrolled again.
How many households from Rolling Valley are zoned for Lee vs WS? It does not really make sense for them to be zoned for Lee if they are houses along Old Keene Mill Rd and Rolling Rd. |
Anonymous
| Isn't Lee also under-enrolled? Why do we have some schools overenrolled and others under? |
Anonymous
The five-year projection is for West Springfield to be at 105% of capacity and Lee to be at 85% of capacity. It's ridiculous to even think about moving the part of Rolling Valley now at Lee to West Springfield unless some other part of West Springfield (at least half of Cardinal Forest or Keene Mill) moves to Lee in return. |
Anonymous
What they should do is make Lee either the lone IN magnet for that part of the county, or make it the academy/trades magnet for the county and move the rest of the kids a few blocks down the road to Edison. |
Anonymous
| IB magnet. Hate autocorrect. |
Anonymous
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After construction is complete West Springfield is under capacity, just as it was before construction.
The construction situation is temporary. |
Anonymous
The capacity at WS shouldn't be increased to accommodate students from another school that has even greater excess capacity. No more students should be moved from Lee to WS, unless (1) other WS students move to Lee; or (2) there is some other major, program change at Lee that assures more kids will attend the school. Period. |
Anonymous
WSHS is not getting renovated to increase capacity. It is getting renovated because the building was falling apart to the point that there were safety hazards that needed to be addressed. It was not over capacity before the renovation. It is over capacity now because at any given point in the renovation, 1/5 or so +/- is shut off and off line because they are working on it. If all of the current classrooms were operational, WSHS would be under capacity. It is not a school with a capacity issue. |
Anonymous
| Lee is a low performing school. Aren't smaller schools and smaller class sizes a priority for underperforming schools? |
Anonymous
So using the current viewpoint that smaller schools are better for students, Lee's students would probably benefit greatly from.that school hitting a target enrollment of around 1500 to 1600 students. |
Anonymous
Yes, however segregation seems to have a more negative effect than smaller class size and schools. At least that's what's come out of most of the reports. Ideally there is some of both. Integration and smaller class sizes. |
Anonymous
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There are so few students from Rolling Valley that go to Lee (it's something like 10 students per grade level). I think it's ridiculous to move those kids to Lee after 7 years building relationships at Rolling Valley. Also, those houses do other things with West Springfield - for instance they are in boundary for West Springfield sports teams. So you're taking this tiny percentage of students and totally shifting their whole social network - school and community. I think they should shift the boundary to include those students. I don't think it harms anyone if they do it and really harms the students if they don't.
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