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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach at Lee. Because it’s a smaller school, there are more opportunities for leadership and actually making sports teams. We have thriving theater, chorus, and music programs. You can take Spanish, French, and Arabic. We do offer honors, AP, and IB courses. Nationally recognized library program, 1 to 1 computers, all IB candidates received the diploma last year (only school in FCPS to achieve this), the seniors this year received millions of dollars in scholarships and had 65+ students who graduated with 4.0+ GPAs. Test scores are on the rise, not spiraling downward. The ESOL population is shrinking, but ESOL students take ESOL classes until they are proficient enough to take standard or advanced level classes. Lee students are the same as Key students, so it is kind of funny that someone would be okay at Key but think Lee is somehow different. [/quote]

Lee teacher, if you follow dcum you will notice there is one (or a few) posters who really want Lee to be shut down so that A) their neighborhood can be rezoned to South County or West Springfield OR B) 5 elementaries can be rezoned to West Springfield, and the West Springfield feeders rezoned to LB and South County, with the gleeful hope that WS scores will tank. They think this closure is supposed to happen very soon, based off a "gatehouse insider" who posts regularly that Lee is losing accreditation very soon.

None of this is necessarily backed by test scores, facts or the rezoning process that must be followed. [/quote]

how would Lee lose accreditation based on what Lee Teacher has stated above?[/quote]

According to rumor, Lee is in serious danger of losing accreditation solely because the adult ESOL population has been consolidated at Lee.  It's not because of the regular Lee high school students.  And I have no idea how accurate the rumor is.  [/quote]

It is a dcum rumor that may or may not be reality, but is likely someone who bought in Lee ans is hoping their kids get rezoned to a different school.[/quote]

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