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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s not a single member of the current School Board with an ounce of courage.  They pick soft targets (Asian immigrants hoping their kids will get into TJ) but they’d never take on vocal parents like the white parents at Langley or West Springfield. [/quote]

Why do you keep dragging West Springfield into your discussion about overenrolled schools when WSHS is around the [b]average enrollment capacity of the majority of fcps high schools[/b]?  Why do you call WS a "white" school when it is majority minority with one of the highest percentages of African American students in all of FCPS?

It is such a bizarre fixation to have this strange focus on one school that is not over enrolled and has one of the most compact boundaries in the county.  It is almost as if you are trolling.[/quote]

What does the "average enrollment capacity of the majority" of schools mean? Like you exclude a bunch of schools and then say West Springfield is then about average?

In any event, West Springfield (2650) has the fifth largest HS enrollment in the county this year, behind only Chantilly (2917), Lake Braddock (2896), West Potomac (2725), and Oakton (2679).  Lewis, with which WS shares a large border, has the smallest enrollment (1685).  Does anyone think a school with 1685 kids can offer the same classes or the same number of sessions of classes as one with 2650 kids?

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Lewis is IB.

Start there.[/quote]

Lewis teacher here. I know we’re allegedly under capacity, but I don’t see it. The halls are overcrowded during class change, the 4 lunch periods are packed, classrooms are all utilized and I don’t know anyone not teaching an obscure elective who doesn’t have capacity enrollment in their classes. So yeah, sending a couple thousand kids over here— in a building that hasn’t been touched since 2001— is of questionable value.[/quote]

Hmm.  I recall the former student School Board representative who definitely went to Lewis complaining about how students at Lewis felt disrespected and how she couldn’t access a challenging math class because so few sections were offered there.[/quote]

If they removed IB from Lewis and switched to AP, it would help tremendously.

Or get rid of IB at all the other schools in that area, and make Lewis a magnet for IB.

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do you think any SB candidates would run on getting rid of IB in most schools?[/quote]

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