FCPS HS Boundary

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Anonymous wrote:I think the extreme political backlash would only happen if the School Board goes for massive changes across the county under the banner of equity.

If, for example, they only moved students from overcrowded WS to under utilized Lewis, I don't think you would get much political support outside of WS. There is a legitimate justification to make this change. The county board certainly would not get involved. And voters across the county wouldn't rally to elect a bunch of conservatives because of proper space and resource utilization.

There is no justification for this change.

Other people's kids are not your pawns.

Stop being obtuse. There is plenty of justification as has already been discussed ad nauseam. Zones are not guaranteed, and everyone agrees the existing zones and associated policies are outdated. Your anger should be directed at the past school boards who failed to manage the situation properly.

Before we start moving a bunch of WS kids around, why don't we transition Lewis to AP, add a STEM lab there and stop kids WHO ARE ZONED FOR LEWIS from getting pupil placed at other schools. You could have 15 elementary schools rezoned for Key and Lewis but you still wouldn't be able to fill it up. You need to add something to that school that kids would find useful.

+1. Much better idea than just dumping neighborhoods of kids who wouldn’t actually attend Lewis now into its catchment area.

It is possible to redistrict where needed AND adjust offerings as needed. Why do people act as if this is an either-or situation?

People should have proof they’ve done what they’ve said they’ll do. Otherwise they can make promises they never keep. And FCPS could also gauge the impact of the changes on enrollment within the current boundaries before moving any kids from other schools.

Heaven forbid my little snookums be redistricted from WS to Lewis, am I right? <clutches pearls>

It won't be your kids moving from WS to Lewis. If they were, you wouldn't find this so hilarious.

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The PP is the usual idiot who loves threatening other people’s kids with redistricting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the extreme political backlash would only happen if the School Board goes for massive changes across the county under the banner of equity.

If, for example, they only moved students from overcrowded WS to under utilized Lewis, I don't think you would get much political support outside of WS. There is a legitimate justification to make this change. The county board certainly would not get involved. And voters across the county wouldn't rally to elect a bunch of conservatives because of proper space and resource utilization.

There is no justification for this change.

Other people's kids are not your pawns.

Stop being obtuse. There is plenty of justification as has already been discussed ad nauseam. Zones are not guaranteed, and everyone agrees the existing zones and associated policies are outdated. Your anger should be directed at the past school boards who failed to manage the situation properly.

Before we start moving a bunch of WS kids around, why don't we transition Lewis to AP, add a STEM lab there and stop kids WHO ARE ZONED FOR LEWIS from getting pupil placed at other schools. You could have 15 elementary schools rezoned for Key and Lewis but you still wouldn't be able to fill it up. You need to add something to that school that kids would find useful.

+1. Much better idea than just dumping neighborhoods of kids who wouldn’t actually attend Lewis now into its catchment area.

It is possible to redistrict where needed AND adjust offerings as needed. Why do people act as if this is an either-or situation?

People should have proof they’ve done what they’ve said they’ll do. Otherwise they can make promises they never keep. And FCPS could also gauge the impact of the changes on enrollment within the current boundaries before moving any kids from other schools.

Heaven forbid my little snookums be redistricted from WS to Lewis, am I right? <clutches pearls>

It won't be your kids moving from WS to Lewis. If they were, you wouldn't find this so hilarious.

Don’t mistake her caustic bitterness for an attempt at hilarity. She posts like this fairly regularly in an attempt to minimize the legitimate concerns of parents on DCUM (although we had a refreshing break recently). She straight up hates your kid if he/she attends one of the better schools in the county.

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She is out to stick it to you! Huge chip in her shoulder.
DP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:According to the FCPS, there are 226 students who transferred out of Lewis this past year.

226 students.

Let that sink in.

Rezoning Daventry or part of any other WSHS neighborhood to Lewis will not match the sheer numbers of students transferring out of Lewis. It would only be a spite rezoning to appease a small subset of people who are upset with their home purchase and want to stick it to someone else's kids.

Before FCPS even thinks about rezoning kids to Lewis, they need to close every loophole that is allowing hundreds of zoned to Lewis families to transfer out of their zoned school.

Start there.

Not with spite rezoning adjacent schools and disrupting students attending their neighborhood schools who are not complaining about wanting to be redistricted.

Here is the link to the dashboard for Lewis:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2023-24StudentTransfersDashboard/ReadMe

Membership 1653
Transfer in 17
Transfer Out 226
Net transfers 209 loss of students.

Rezoning mom is barking up the wrong tree.

She needs to start advocating to make changes to Lewis that close the transfer loop holes.

Thank you for sending the link above, I hadn’t seen it before. I took a look at Herndon High, and, if I’m reading it right the net transfer out is a little less than 300. Even taking TJ out of the equation, that is a lot of kids, like in the wheelhouse of 10% of the school. If the SB is worried about efficient use of existing facilities, it’s a no-brainer to curtail transfers between schools first. Let me be clear that I don’t support that approach, but if the board insists on pressing reset, then this should absolutely be the first step in the process before any redistricting occurs.

FCPS gives students escape valves from the worst high schools. I don't see any reason to force a kid to attend a failing school if they are adamant that they want to attend a different school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the FCPS, there are 226 students who transferred out of Lewis this past year.

226 students.

Let that sink in.

Rezoning Daventry or part of any other WSHS neighborhood to Lewis will not match the sheer numbers of students transferring out of Lewis. It would only be a spite rezoning to appease a small subset of people who are upset with their home purchase and want to stick it to someone else's kids.

Before FCPS even thinks about rezoning kids to Lewis, they need to close every loophole that is allowing hundreds of zoned to Lewis families to transfer out of their zoned school.

Start there.

Not with spite rezoning adjacent schools and disrupting students attending their neighborhood schools who are not complaining about wanting to be redistricted.

Here is the link to the dashboard for Lewis:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2023-24StudentTransfersDashboard/ReadMe

Membership 1653
Transfer in 17
Transfer Out 226
Net transfers 209 loss of students.

Rezoning mom is barking up the wrong tree.

She needs to start advocating to make changes to Lewis that close the transfer loop holes.

Thank you for sending the link above, I hadn’t seen it before. I took a look at Herndon High, and, if I’m reading it right the net transfer out is a little less than 300. Even taking TJ out of the equation, that is a lot of kids, like in the wheelhouse of 10% of the school. If the SB is worried about efficient use of existing facilities, it’s a no-brainer to curtail transfers between schools first. Let me be clear that I don’t support that approach, but if the board insists on pressing reset, then this should absolutely be the first step in the process before any redistricting occurs.

FCPS gives students escape valves from the worst high schools. I don't see any reason to force a kid to attend a failing school if they are adamant that they want to attend a different school

But if FCPS is considering rezoning kids from and adjacent school zone to a failing school, the district needs to first look at how to keep the 200 plus kids zoned for the school in place, before even considering rezoning children from another high school.

It is just common sense.

Start with the kids who are living in the Lewis zone. See what happens after a couple of years.

12% of students transferring out of Lewis to other high schools is a huge percentage. Keeping those students at Lewis completely negates any argument in favor of rezoning kids from Daventry or Keene Mill.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The solution for Lewis is to make it a CTE trade school and allow everyone who wants a more academic path to transfer out. That’s basically what’s happening now, but they need to stop even attempting to make Lewis fit all types of students when it’s so heavily FARMS and 1st gen. Put the resources there to serve that population and let those who don’t fit go elsewhere.

You do have to ask though - How did it get to this point? Why was it allowed to happen? Why were decisions made that hastened the demise?

That's what happens when you concentrate poverty. MVHS should get similar treatment

People move where they want to live. Families, job, cheaper houses, commute, walkable neighborhood, ethnic communities...

Recent immigrants have always chosen to live in communities with similar religious and cultural ties. Where I grew up in the midwest, the Irish, Italians, Polish and Germans all had consentrated residential areas where they chose to live. There was comfort and community in being around their native language, cultures, food and extended families.

That seems to be largely what is happening in some areas of ffx county. It is a natural part of immigration, and one that I and many other first and second generation immigrants experienced as a member of an immigrant family.

It just seems laughable that you want to blame FCPS for what is a very natural process of immigrating and intergrating to a new society.

People live where they can afford to live. In Fairfax, that is a couple of small areas that sit within a few pyramids. The county caused it by zoning and policy that concentres poverty

There are very practical infrastructure reasons why it is not beneficial to have high density housing development evenly spread throughout the county. It is more cost effective to make targeted infrastructure upgrades in specific areas designated for high density housing. The county will need to expand capacity of the sewer system. water supply and roads networks to accommodatehigher density areas and the entire network will require capacity upgrades if the highest density housing is evenly distributed throughout the county. The policy you are suggesting will require significant investments that Fairfax does not have the capacity to fund.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the FCPS, there are 226 students who transferred out of Lewis this past year.

226 students.

Let that sink in.

Rezoning Daventry or part of any other WSHS neighborhood to Lewis will not match the sheer numbers of students transferring out of Lewis. It would only be a spite rezoning to appease a small subset of people who are upset with their home purchase and want to stick it to someone else's kids.

Before FCPS even thinks about rezoning kids to Lewis, they need to close every loophole that is allowing hundreds of zoned to Lewis families to transfer out of their zoned school.

Start there.

Not with spite rezoning adjacent schools and disrupting students attending their neighborhood schools who are not complaining about wanting to be redistricted.

Here is the link to the dashboard for Lewis:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2023-24StudentTransfersDashboard/ReadMe

Membership 1653
Transfer in 17
Transfer Out 226
Net transfers 209 loss of students.

Rezoning mom is barking up the wrong tree.

She needs to start advocating to make changes to Lewis that close the transfer loop holes.

Thank you for sending the link above, I hadn’t seen it before. I took a look at Herndon High, and, if I’m reading it right the net transfer out is a little less than 300. Even taking TJ out of the equation, that is a lot of kids, like in the wheelhouse of 10% of the school. If the SB is worried about efficient use of existing facilities, it’s a no-brainer to curtail transfers between schools first. Let me be clear that I don’t support that approach, but if the board insists on pressing reset, then this should absolutely be the first step in the process before any redistricting occurs.

FCPS gives students escape valves from the worst high schools. I don't see any reason to force a kid to attend a failing school if they are adamant that they want to attend a different school

So you redistict kids over to Lewis and then give them an escape valve to go back to WSHS? And the only difference is that parents have to provide all of the transportation? Great plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the FCPS, there are 226 students who transferred out of Lewis this past year.

226 students.

Let that sink in.

Rezoning Daventry or part of any other WSHS neighborhood to Lewis will not match the sheer numbers of students transferring out of Lewis. It would only be a spite rezoning to appease a small subset of people who are upset with their home purchase and want to stick it to someone else's kids.

Before FCPS even thinks about rezoning kids to Lewis, they need to close every loophole that is allowing hundreds of zoned to Lewis families to transfer out of their zoned school.

Start there.

Not with spite rezoning adjacent schools and disrupting students attending their neighborhood schools who are not complaining about wanting to be redistricted.

Here is the link to the dashboard for Lewis:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2023-24StudentTransfersDashboard/ReadMe

Membership 1653
Transfer in 17
Transfer Out 226
Net transfers 209 loss of students.

Rezoning mom is barking up the wrong tree.

She needs to start advocating to make changes to Lewis that close the transfer loop holes.

Thank you for sending the link above, I hadn’t seen it before. I took a look at Herndon High, and, if I’m reading it right the net transfer out is a little less than 300. Even taking TJ out of the equation, that is a lot of kids, like in the wheelhouse of 10% of the school. If the SB is worried about efficient use of existing facilities, it’s a no-brainer to curtail transfers between schools first. Let me be clear that I don’t support that approach, but if the board insists on pressing reset, then this should absolutely be the first step in the process before any redistricting occurs.

FCPS gives students escape valves from the worst high schools. I don't see any reason to force a kid to attend a failing school if they are adamant that they want to attend a different school

So you redistict kids over to Lewis and then give them an escape valve to go back to WSHS? And the only difference is that parents have to provide all of the transportation? Great plan.

DP. With all the AP courses being added to Lewis, it's going to be harder to transfer to an AP school (and there were more kids transferring out of Lewis to Lake Braddock this year than to West Springfield).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the FCPS, there are 226 students who transferred out of Lewis this past year.

226 students.

Let that sink in.

Rezoning Daventry or part of any other WSHS neighborhood to Lewis will not match the sheer numbers of students transferring out of Lewis. It would only be a spite rezoning to appease a small subset of people who are upset with their home purchase and want to stick it to someone else's kids.

Before FCPS even thinks about rezoning kids to Lewis, they need to close every loophole that is allowing hundreds of zoned to Lewis families to transfer out of their zoned school.

Start there.

Not with spite rezoning adjacent schools and disrupting students attending their neighborhood schools who are not complaining about wanting to be redistricted.

Here is the link to the dashboard for Lewis:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2023-24StudentTransfersDashboard/ReadMe

Membership 1653
Transfer in 17
Transfer Out 226
Net transfers 209 loss of students.

Rezoning mom is barking up the wrong tree.

She needs to start advocating to make changes to Lewis that close the transfer loop holes.

Thank you for sending the link above, I hadn’t seen it before. I took a look at Herndon High, and, if I’m reading it right the net transfer out is a little less than 300. Even taking TJ out of the equation, that is a lot of kids, like in the wheelhouse of 10% of the school. If the SB is worried about efficient use of existing facilities, it’s a no-brainer to curtail transfers between schools first. Let me be clear that I don’t support that approach, but if the board insists on pressing reset, then this should absolutely be the first step in the process before any redistricting occurs.

FCPS gives students escape valves from the worst high schools. I don't see any reason to force a kid to attend a failing school if they are adamant that they want to attend a different school

So you redistict kids over to Lewis and then give them an escape valve to go back to WSHS? And the only difference is that parents have to provide all of the transportation? Great plan.

DP. With all the AP courses being added to Lewis, it's going to be harder to transfer to an AP school (and there were more kids transferring out of Lewis to Lake Braddock this year than to West Springfield).

There should not be any students transferring into West Springfield as it is closed to transfers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the FCPS, there are 226 students who transferred out of Lewis this past year.

226 students.

Let that sink in.

Rezoning Daventry or part of any other WSHS neighborhood to Lewis will not match the sheer numbers of students transferring out of Lewis. It would only be a spite rezoning to appease a small subset of people who are upset with their home purchase and want to stick it to someone else's kids.

Before FCPS even thinks about rezoning kids to Lewis, they need to close every loophole that is allowing hundreds of zoned to Lewis families to transfer out of their zoned school.

Start there.

Not with spite rezoning adjacent schools and disrupting students attending their neighborhood schools who are not complaining about wanting to be redistricted.

Here is the link to the dashboard for Lewis:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2023-24StudentTransfersDashboard/ReadMe

Membership 1653
Transfer in 17
Transfer Out 226
Net transfers 209 loss of students.

Rezoning mom is barking up the wrong tree.

She needs to start advocating to make changes to Lewis that close the transfer loop holes.

Thank you for sending the link above, I hadn’t seen it before. I took a look at Herndon High, and, if I’m reading it right the net transfer out is a little less than 300. Even taking TJ out of the equation, that is a lot of kids, like in the wheelhouse of 10% of the school. If the SB is worried about efficient use of existing facilities, it’s a no-brainer to curtail transfers between schools first. Let me be clear that I don’t support that approach, but if the board insists on pressing reset, then this should absolutely be the first step in the process before any redistricting occurs.

FCPS gives students escape valves from the worst high schools. I don't see any reason to force a kid to attend a failing school if they are adamant that they want to attend a different school

So you redistict kids over to Lewis and then give them an escape valve to go back to WSHS? And the only difference is that parents have to provide all of the transportation? Great plan.

DP. With all the AP courses being added to Lewis, it's going to be harder to transfer to an AP school (and there were more kids transferring out of Lewis to Lake Braddock this year than to West Springfield).

There should not be any students transferring into West Springfield as it is closed to transfers.

There are 51 transfers into WSHS this year. Even when most routine transfers (for example, IB to AP) are denied, some transfers are granted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The solution for Lewis is to make it a CTE trade school and allow everyone who wants a more academic path to transfer out. That’s basically what’s happening now, but they need to stop even attempting to make Lewis fit all types of students when it’s so heavily FARMS and 1st gen. Put the resources there to serve that population and let those who don’t fit go elsewhere.

You do have to ask though - How did it get to this point? Why was it allowed to happen? Why were decisions made that hastened the demise?

That's what happens when you concentrate poverty. MVHS should get similar treatment

People move where they want to live. Families, job, cheaper houses, commute, walkable neighborhood, ethnic communities...

Recent immigrants have always chosen to live in communities with similar religious and cultural ties. Where I grew up in the midwest, the Irish, Italians, Polish and Germans all had consentrated residential areas where they chose to live. There was comfort and community in being around their native language, cultures, food and extended families.

That seems to be largely what is happening in some areas of ffx county. It is a natural part of immigration, and one that I and many other first and second generation immigrants experienced as a member of an immigrant family.

It just seems laughable that you want to blame FCPS for what is a very natural process of immigrating and intergrating to a new society.

LOL choice?

Presumably new residents were not brought to this country in chains and forced to live in a particularly city/state.

If that’s not the case, we have an entirely different problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the FCPS, there are 226 students who transferred out of Lewis this past year.

226 students.

Let that sink in.

Rezoning Daventry or part of any other WSHS neighborhood to Lewis will not match the sheer numbers of students transferring out of Lewis. It would only be a spite rezoning to appease a small subset of people who are upset with their home purchase and want to stick it to someone else's kids.

Before FCPS even thinks about rezoning kids to Lewis, they need to close every loophole that is allowing hundreds of zoned to Lewis families to transfer out of their zoned school.

Start there.

Not with spite rezoning adjacent schools and disrupting students attending their neighborhood schools who are not complaining about wanting to be redistricted.

Here is the link to the dashboard for Lewis:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2023-24StudentTransfersDashboard/ReadMe

Membership 1653
Transfer in 17
Transfer Out 226
Net transfers 209 loss of students.

Rezoning mom is barking up the wrong tree.

She needs to start advocating to make changes to Lewis that close the transfer loop holes.

Thank you for sending the link above, I hadn’t seen it before. I took a look at Herndon High, and, if I’m reading it right the net transfer out is a little less than 300. Even taking TJ out of the equation, that is a lot of kids, like in the wheelhouse of 10% of the school. If the SB is worried about efficient use of existing facilities, it’s a no-brainer to curtail transfers between schools first. Let me be clear that I don’t support that approach, but if the board insists on pressing reset, then this should absolutely be the first step in the process before any redistricting occurs.

True.
Otherwise they’ll end up with the same number of kids in the building and MORE transfers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the FCPS, there are 226 students who transferred out of Lewis this past year.

226 students.

Let that sink in.

Rezoning Daventry or part of any other WSHS neighborhood to Lewis will not match the sheer numbers of students transferring out of Lewis. It would only be a spite rezoning to appease a small subset of people who are upset with their home purchase and want to stick it to someone else's kids.

Before FCPS even thinks about rezoning kids to Lewis, they need to close every loophole that is allowing hundreds of zoned to Lewis families to transfer out of their zoned school.

Start there.

Not with spite rezoning adjacent schools and disrupting students attending their neighborhood schools who are not complaining about wanting to be redistricted.

Here is the link to the dashboard for Lewis:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2023-24StudentTransfersDashboard/ReadMe

Membership 1653
Transfer in 17
Transfer Out 226
Net transfers 209 loss of students.

Rezoning mom is barking up the wrong tree.

She needs to start advocating to make changes to Lewis that close the transfer loop holes.

Thank you for sending the link above, I hadn’t seen it before. I took a look at Herndon High, and, if I’m reading it right the net transfer out is a little less than 300. Even taking TJ out of the equation, that is a lot of kids, like in the wheelhouse of 10% of the school. If the SB is worried about efficient use of existing facilities, it’s a no-brainer to curtail transfers between schools first. Let me be clear that I don’t support that approach, but if the board insists on pressing reset, then this should absolutely be the first step in the process before any redistricting occurs.

FCPS gives students escape valves from the worst high schools. I don't see any reason to force a kid to attend a failing school if they are adamant that they want to attend a different school

Those transfers are not what you think they are as explained upthread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The solution for Lewis is to make it a CTE trade school and allow everyone who wants a more academic path to transfer out. That’s basically what’s happening now, but they need to stop even attempting to make Lewis fit all types of students when it’s so heavily FARMS and 1st gen. Put the resources there to serve that population and let those who don’t fit go elsewhere.

You do have to ask though - How did it get to this point? Why was it allowed to happen? Why were decisions made that hastened the demise?

That's what happens when you concentrate poverty. MVHS should get similar treatment

People move where they want to live. Families, job, cheaper houses, commute, walkable neighborhood, ethnic communities...

Recent immigrants have always chosen to live in communities with similar religious and cultural ties. Where I grew up in the midwest, the Irish, Italians, Polish and Germans all had consentrated residential areas where they chose to live. There was comfort and community in being around their native language, cultures, food and extended families.

That seems to be largely what is happening in some areas of ffx county. It is a natural part of immigration, and one that I and many other first and second generation immigrants experienced as a member of an immigrant family.

It just seems laughable that you want to blame FCPS for what is a very natural process of immigrating and intergrating to a new society.

LOL choice?

Presumably new residents were not brought to this country in chains and forced to live in a particularly city/state.

If that’s not the case, we have an entirely different problem.

No, as has happened throughout the history of this nation, if someone wants to come here and cannot afford it, they stay with relatives or friends. There is no real choice other than coming to the US. That is how chain migration often works. The 19th century immigrants often took in boarders, usually men, who rented a bed or room. They hoped to save money to move to another apartment or duplex and do the same.

So many areas are off limits to families who have been here for generations due to the high costs. Some people have few real options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The solution for Lewis is to make it a CTE trade school and allow everyone who wants a more academic path to transfer out. That’s basically what’s happening now, but they need to stop even attempting to make Lewis fit all types of students when it’s so heavily FARMS and 1st gen. Put the resources there to serve that population and let those who don’t fit go elsewhere.

You do have to ask though - How did it get to this point? Why was it allowed to happen? Why were decisions made that hastened the demise?

That's what happens when you concentrate poverty. MVHS should get similar treatment

People move where they want to live. Families, job, cheaper houses, commute, walkable neighborhood, ethnic communities...

Recent immigrants have always chosen to live in communities with similar religious and cultural ties. Where I grew up in the midwest, the Irish, Italians, Polish and Germans all had consentrated residential areas where they chose to live. There was comfort and community in being around their native language, cultures, food and extended families.

That seems to be largely what is happening in some areas of ffx county. It is a natural part of immigration, and one that I and many other first and second generation immigrants experienced as a member of an immigrant family.

It just seems laughable that you want to blame FCPS for what is a very natural process of immigrating and intergrating to a new society.

LOL choice?

Presumably new residents were not brought to this country in chains and forced to live in a particularly city/state.

If that’s not the case, we have an entirely different problem.

No, as has happened throughout the history of this nation, if someone wants to come here and cannot afford it, they stay with relatives or friends. There is no real choice other than coming to the US. That is how chain migration often works. The 19th century immigrants often took in boarders, usually men, who rented a bed or room. They hoped to save money to move to another apartment or duplex and do the same.

So many areas are off limits to families who have been here for generations due to the high costs. Some people have few real options.

I am far from anti-immigrant. I think the border wall is dumb and that we need immigrants given our aging population and they should be welcome in the US. However, I think there are limits to how much we need to roll out the red carpet. For instance, I don’t think we need to redistrict the entire county to accommodate an influx of immigrants, and, while I am on board with public school for all, I don’t think it has to be at the expense of current students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The solution for Lewis is to make it a CTE trade school and allow everyone who wants a more academic path to transfer out. That’s basically what’s happening now, but they need to stop even attempting to make Lewis fit all types of students when it’s so heavily FARMS and 1st gen. Put the resources there to serve that population and let those who don’t fit go elsewhere.

You do have to ask though - How did it get to this point? Why was it allowed to happen? Why were decisions made that hastened the demise?

That's what happens when you concentrate poverty. MVHS should get similar treatment

People move where they want to live. Families, job, cheaper houses, commute, walkable neighborhood, ethnic communities...

Recent immigrants have always chosen to live in communities with similar religious and cultural ties. Where I grew up in the midwest, the Irish, Italians, Polish and Germans all had consentrated residential areas where they chose to live. There was comfort and community in being around their native language, cultures, food and extended families.

That seems to be largely what is happening in some areas of ffx county. It is a natural part of immigration, and one that I and many other first and second generation immigrants experienced as a member of an immigrant family.

It just seems laughable that you want to blame FCPS for what is a very natural process of immigrating and intergrating to a new society.

LOL choice?

Presumably new residents were not brought to this country in chains and forced to live in a particularly city/state.

If that’s not the case, we have an entirely different problem.

No, as has happened throughout the history of this nation, if someone wants to come here and cannot afford it, they stay with relatives or friends. There is no real choice other than coming to the US. That is how chain migration often works. The 19th century immigrants often took in boarders, usually men, who rented a bed or room. They hoped to save money to move to another apartment or duplex and do the same.

So many areas are off limits to families who have been here for generations due to the high costs. Some people have few real options.

I am far from anti-immigrant. I think the border wall is dumb and that we need immigrants given our aging population and they should be welcome in the US. However, I think there are limits to how much we need to roll out the red carpet. For instance, I don’t think we need to redistrict the entire county to accommodate an influx of immigrants, and, while I am on board with public school for all, I don’t think it has to be at the expense of current students.

So is there a large number of immigrant children in the schools your children attend? Otherwise, you are basically saying, sure, let them in, just don't put those kids in my schools. This is exactly how many people in this county think.