Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They need to move students to Lewis.

Okay, so they move students from WS to Lewis. Presumably Lewis stays an IB school, albeit a bare bones one compared to other IB schools in FCPS. If I were an WS parent moved to Lewis for my rising high schooler, I would go find another AP school. That puts me back at WS, unless it stays close to transfers, in which case….what? Lake Braddock? Don’t suppose the school board thought that one through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They need to move students to Lewis.

Okay, so they move students from WS to Lewis. Presumably Lewis stays an IB school, albeit a bare bones one compared to other IB schools in FCPS. If I were an WS parent moved to Lewis for my rising high schooler, I would go find another AP school. That puts me back at WS, unless it stays close to transfers, in which case….what? Lake Braddock? Don’t suppose the school board thought that one through.

This is such a ridiculous mess. This is all one Board Member's personal crusade, and a complete mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They need to move students to Lewis.

Okay, so they move students from WS to Lewis. Presumably Lewis stays an IB school, albeit a bare bones one compared to other IB schools in FCPS. If I were an WS parent moved to Lewis for my rising high schooler, I would go find another AP school. That puts me back at WS, unless it stays close to transfers, in which case….what? Lake Braddock? Don’t suppose the school board thought that one through.

WSHS is "closed" to transfers in that FCPS allowed around 60 students to transfer into the "closed" WSHS last year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They need to move students to Lewis.

Okay, so they move students from WS to Lewis. Presumably Lewis stays an IB school, albeit a bare bones one compared to other IB schools in FCPS. If I were an WS parent moved to Lewis for my rising high schooler, I would go find another AP school. That puts me back at WS, unless it stays close to transfers, in which case….what? Lake Braddock? Don’t suppose the school board thought that one through.

WSHS is "closed" to transfers in that FCPS allowed around 60 students to transfer into the "closed" WSHS last year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They need to move students to Lewis.

Okay, so they move students from WS to Lewis. Presumably Lewis stays an IB school, albeit a bare bones one compared to other IB schools in FCPS. If I were an WS parent moved to Lewis for my rising high schooler, I would go find another AP school. That puts me back at WS, unless it stays close to transfers, in which case….what? Lake Braddock? Don’t suppose the school board thought that one through.

If they added more AP classes, then your kid (and mine) would presumably have no legitimate reason to pupil place anywhere else.

Moving kids without making an attempt to also limit transfers would be pointless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They need to move students to Lewis.

Okay, so they move students from WS to Lewis. Presumably Lewis stays an IB school, albeit a bare bones one compared to other IB schools in FCPS. If I were an WS parent moved to Lewis for my rising high schooler, I would go find another AP school. That puts me back at WS, unless it stays close to transfers, in which case….what? Lake Braddock? Don’t suppose the school board thought that one through.

If they added more AP classes, then your kid (and mine) would presumably have no legitimate reason to pupil place anywhere else.

Moving kids without making an attempt to also limit transfers would be pointless.

True. Unfortunately, FCPS has more than demonstrated that they’ll throw a skeleton version of a program in a school and pretend it’s a robust version. There’s no way WS kids reassigned to Lewis are going to get an equivalent program.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They need to move students to Lewis.

Okay, so they move students from WS to Lewis. Presumably Lewis stays an IB school, albeit a bare bones one compared to other IB schools in FCPS. If I were an WS parent moved to Lewis for my rising high schooler, I would go find another AP school. That puts me back at WS, unless it stays close to transfers, in which case….what? Lake Braddock? Don’t suppose the school board thought that one through.

If they added more AP classes, then your kid (and mine) would presumably have no legitimate reason to pupil place anywhere else.

Moving kids without making an attempt to also limit transfers would be pointless.

True. Unfortunately, FCPS has more than demonstrated that they’ll throw a skeleton version of a program in a school and pretend it’s a robust version. There’s no way WS kids reassigned to Lewis are going to get an equivalent program.

And talk about really moving kids away from their community should this happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They need to move students to Lewis.

Okay, so they move students from WS to Lewis. Presumably Lewis stays an IB school, albeit a bare bones one compared to other IB schools in FCPS. If I were an WS parent moved to Lewis for my rising high schooler, I would go find another AP school. That puts me back at WS, unless it stays close to transfers, in which case….what? Lake Braddock? Don’t suppose the school board thought that one through.

If they added more AP classes, then your kid (and mine) would presumably have no legitimate reason to pupil place anywhere else.

Moving kids without making an attempt to also limit transfers would be pointless.

They'd need to replicate the full menu of AP courses available at a West Springfield or Lake Braddock at Lewis. Otherwise, people would just look for any course differences and cite them as a reason to pupil place, just like all the Westfield families who've signed their kids up for Russian so they can attend Langley.

[Anonymous]

We're now less than 24 hrs from the first community meeting and no maps... have any SB members sent emails to their list attempting to explain??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're now less than 24 hrs from the first community meeting and no maps... have any SB members sent emails to their list attempting to explain??

i am on lists for moon, dunne, mcdaniels and lady and nothing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're now less than 24 hrs from the first community meeting and no maps... have any SB members sent emails to their list attempting to explain??

i am on lists for moon, dunne, mcdaniels and lady and nothing

I don't think they know what to say. Several had sent out emails on Friday telling people the updated map would out by COB Friday. One of the members you mentioned was telling people yesterday there were a few technical problems but it would get out yesterday. I think they are just relying on Reid's office to make any further statements now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone realizes this moves less than 90ish kids out of Irving/WSHS. This won't solve anywhere near the issue of overcrowding alone. Something else bigger has to give.

The overcrowding is a myth

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone realizes this moves less than 90ish kids out of Irving/WSHS. This won't solve anywhere near the issue of overcrowding alone. Something else bigger has to give.

Wait, what? If it only move 90 kids then who cares? I wonder if that's why they pulled in Hunt Valley? They need way more numbers?

I think is is 100 kids based of FCPS numbers.

100 students moved out of WSHS eliminates the 2 trailers added this year.

This also closes a split feeder which is one of the stated goals of this exercise.

And creates another!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will they move anyone to Lewis?

Should close it and move students from it. It’s not recoverable and is not an equitable solution to current or future students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone realizes this moves less than 90ish kids out of Irving/WSHS. This won't solve anywhere near the issue of overcrowding alone. Something else bigger has to give.

The overcrowding is a myth

Agree