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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ It sounds like that rezoning was just a side effect of South County and general long term planning/rezoning. That sounds very different that what happened with Daventry and what is being proposed for those few Rollng Valley homes.[/quote]

The move to WS was a last minute decision - not aware that any demographic considerations were taken into account. Only split feeder was addressed, which is just one of many factors. Brad Center, former Lee District SB member, tried to delay the move while a study took place, but the delay was voted down.

So I don't think long-term planning/rezoning was really considered, just a neighborhood's desire to leave Lee (27% F/R rate) to go to West Springfield (somewhere around an 8% F/R lunch rate at the time). After the changes in 2005 Lee's F/R lunch rate rose to 40% in 2009. To this day WS F/R lunch rate is only around 12% - 45% lower than Lee's rate on FCPS.edu of 57%.

Now add the Daventry moves to Rolling Valley moves and suddenly you probably will have 150-180 students (across 4 grades) who would have been at Lee now at WS - breaking it into two moves allows them to get around the School Board because the Superintendent can approve moves of less than 5% of the student body.

This county has become a joke when it comes to have and have not schools considering where it was just 15 years ago.[/quote]

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