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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crestveiw is around 2-3 miles to Lee.

Hunt Valley is around 7 mikes from lee.

Honestly, Rolling Valley should go to WSHS at 100% instead of 75% before Crestveiw.

Garfield should go to WS before Crestview.

Orange Hunt is closer to Lee HS than Hunt Valley (6 miles away vs 7 miles).  Hunt Valley is the farthest WS elementary school from Lee HS.

You are weirdly focused on Hunt Valley going to Lee. It makes no sense whatsoever because your idea completelynlacks logic or reason.

If you want fcps to rezone a WSHS elementary school you need to fixate on one that makes more sense geographically, such as Cardinal Forest or Keene (the two closest WSHS elementaries to Lee).

But really, your idea is quite silly with no legitimate justification for it.[/quote]

Crestwood ES is 3.8 miles from West Springfield HS and many homes zoned for CES are closer.

Hunt Valley ES is 5.7 miles from Lee HS and many homes zoned for HVES are closer.

Orange Hunt ES is 6.1 miles from Lee HS and many homes zoned for OHES are further.

I've never mentioned moving Crestwood ES to West Springfield HS, or moving Hunt Valley ES to Lee HS, before today.  The fact that another poster must have done so previously tells me others also think it might balance the demographics between those schools, which is very much in line with the "One Fairfax" initiative adopted by the county Board of Supervisors and School Board.

Either we care about over-concentrating poverty in certain schools, or we don't.  It's pretty obvious where you stand.  [/quote]

Remember, a good part of Hunt Valley did go to Lee until 2005. It is literally straight down the Fairfax County Parkway to Frontier Drive. Very easy.

Of course, you can see that the Hunt Valley people (nor any other West Springfield feeder) would allow their schools to be sent to Lee. This is where FCPS screwed up by letting the schools get too far apart in demographics. If they had moved Crestwood to West Springfield in 2005 and left Hunt Valley at Lee then the two schools would have actually moved closer together demographically. But to FCPS it was all about closing split feeders and the noisiest parents. Now they have Lee and a growing list of other high schools (Mt. Vernon, Falls Church, Annandale, and Stuart) that many parents won't allow their students to attend. And the F/R lunch numbers of Herndon and West Potomac are moving in the wrong direction as well. They are crossing the point of no return.

So boundaries will not be changed, IB will stay at too many schools in the eastern side of the County, and Lee High School will probably cross 60% F/R lunch in the next couple of years (up from 24% in 2002). Way to go FCPS.

I actually think that this is partly to blame on the fact that the Fairfax School Board is elected. They are directly beholden to voters for very tough things like boundaries. When the Board was appointed by the Board of Supervisors there was some insulation from the really tough decisions. People could, of course, throw out the Supervisors who appointed those School Board members, but the schools were only part of the voting decision. Now any decision the School Board makes is weighed against being thrown out of office.[/quote]

I'm not so convinced all the schools you mention have passed a point of no return.  But what parents want to see is some affirmative indication that either the county or FCPS cares about their area or school pyramid.

Right now it breaks down as follows:

Annandale - all people see is FCPS over-concentrating poverty at Poe MS and Annandale HS.

Falls Church - mixed messages (on the one hand, the Mosaic/Merrifield area is getting new investment, yet FCPS appears poised to drive up the FARMS percentage at Jackson MS by moving its wealthiest areas to Thoreau MS).

Lee - all people see is complete neglect of the pyramid and a failure to adjust boundaries with West Springfield when it's an obvious way to balance the demographics

Mount Vernon - FCPS sends a very clear message this is a pyramid to avoid at all costs by proposing to expand West Potomac HS when there are hundreds of empty seats at Mount Vernon

Stuart - the ESOL/FARMS population goes up every year, but at least FCPS regularly sends top administrators to schools in the pyramid

Clearly FCPS could do a better job with some of these pyramids. [/quote]

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