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Anonymous
Juniors never get parking at WSHS. Parking is for seniors. Junior parking issues are irrelevant. They park off csmpus. |
Anonymous
You get a cupcake. |
Anonymous
This year, juniors were guaranteed parking if they took the AP chem class offered before school. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like WS is... overcrowded. |
Anonymous
| This thread has gone off the rails. Posters are arguing kids should be upended because *checks notes* there aren’t copious parking spots at their schools. You all are getting pretty desperate. |
Anonymous
| My kid is one who didn't get parking and she wouldn't want to leave WS just because of parking! A friend at Lake Braddock also said they have way more demand for parking than availability. |
Anonymous
But apparently WS has added trailers and were already 300 over capacity last year. Meanwhile Lewis is hundreds of students under capacity. Just saying. |
Anonymous
…because 300 Lewis kids pupil place out to LBSS, Edison etc every year, leaving the school under capacity. |
Anonymous
Sure. And people pick the WS pyramid over Lewis and the county refuses to do ANYTHING to address the problem. |
Anonymous
| Lewis transfers have been pretty much shut down. I don't know what you're going on about. WSHS kids zoned for Lewis need to go to Lewis. |
Anonymous
DP. Pretty much shut down? 24-25 saw 251 transfers out and a net 228 transfers out. That’s FCPS data. You’re not a serious person. |
Anonymous
Somebody upthread very thoroughly and helpfully outlined what the county could do to help that situation that wasn’t “bus students who probably walk to Irving to Key/Lewis” or “bus students from Hunt Valley down the county parkway where there’s always accidents to Key/Lewis.” |
Anonymous
Feel free to pupil place your child into Lewis then to help with their enrollment problem. |
Anonymous
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Shutting down transfers to Lewis, and only Lewis, is a potential lawsuit waiting to happen. The school system cannot say, "Only these kids cannot transfer for language or the STEM program or for other reasons. We are only forbidding Lewis students from transferring." Not going to happen. FCPS would need to forbid all transfers to all schools across the county.
Changing Lewis IB to AP is also a pointless change because the reason for kids transfering isn't because of IB or AP. The reason is because UMC parents don't want to send their students to Lewis because Lewis has low ratings. It doesn't matter IB or AP -- parents will find a way to make a transfer work because they're scared of the ratings. The real "problem" with Lewis is that it's got such a high percentage of non-English-speaking students, and those students don't test the highest. Those also aren't the students who are likely to take IB course, which require massive amounts of writing in Enligsh. As a result, the school rates low and IB participation is low, which leads to more native-English-speakers fleeing the school district. If you had a similar percentage of non-English-speaking students at WSHS, that school's ratings would drop too. That being said, ratings aren't everything. Lewis has challenging classes, hard-working students, and dedicated teachers. The smaller school size allows more opportunities for students to shine. Lewis is a good school, despite what the ratings may lead people to believe. Just like WSHS would still be a good school if one-third of its population were non-English speakers and its test scores and ratings dropped. |
Anonymous
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Do they ever "worst case?"
Meaning, do they ever consider what could go wrong with this plan/idea? |