Yeah not worth disrupting us for! |
So moving about 40-50 kids from one pocket (10 or so per grade) to then turn around and add in the RVES/Lewis kids isn’t solving this at all. |
Just pointing out it that WS is indeed overcrowded. It would be very stupid to move Hunt Valley students out and move Rolling Valley /Lewis students to WS. Especially since Lewis is 200 under Program Capacity and 450-500 under Design Capacity. Not ideal. Kill IB and standardize language offerings to get the transfers back. That is the first step. |
I'm shocked that the SB hasn't mentioned sunsetting the IB program and replacing it with AP. We are currently zoned for an IB school. If we don't move before my 4th grader starts high school, we will absolutely look into transferring to another high school for AP offerings. Both my spouse and I entered college with a semester of credits because of our AP scores in high school and we want our kids to have the same opportunity. If they just had a robust offering of AP classes in our zoned high school, they wouldn't be risk losing more educated families from IB schools. |
So you're making the case for wider boundary changes. |
It would make too much sense. Therefore, the School Board, which is enamored of IB's marketing pitch that it creates "global citizens" and "lifelong learners," won't consider it. The fact that so few students at IB schools in FCPS actually end up getting IB diplomas has never seemed to matter much to them. |
It's not an "open secret" because it's not true. The people committing residency fraud are people whose families have the time and money to transport them to and from school. |
If you were right then Sandy Anderson and her minions would’ve hired a whole battalion of residency investigators. |
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Poor people have plenty of time and most have access to cars. |
No words. |
No- I’m calling out the hypocrisy. If WSHS is overcrowded and Lewis is lower enrollment, why would you move kids from WSHS (not to Lewis) just to move Lewis kids into WSHS? How does that help Lewis? How does that help WSHS? |
DP. None of the Thru Consulting recommendations to date moved Lewis kids to West Springfield. They just moved West Springfield kids to South County and Lake Braddock. So if they do something different next time and propose to move some Lewis kids to West Springfield it’s possible they’d propose to move even more West Springfield kids to Lewis. Who really knows? |
Oooooor perhaps the “equity” talk is just a bunch of talk and lip service to get elected and play to the base, and they don’t even particularly care one way or another. If the RV split really does end up at Irving/WSHS, that pretty much proves it. |
Our SB member continues to talk about moving RVES kids to WSHS. |