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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 average enrollment capacity of the majority of fcps high schools?  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]

You appear to lack the self-awareness to realize you're proving PP's point.

And there's not just one poster noting that, if the School Board was more focused, they'd pay more attention to the disparity between the enrollments at Lewis and surrounding schools, including West Springfield. [/quote]

Definitely one poster obsesssed with WSHS who posts here all the time.

They constantly triies to turn a thread about schools 30% or more over enrolled into a thread about a school only 5% over enrolled, similar enrollment to the majority of FCPS high schools.[/quote]

I have posted about the disparities between West Springfield and Lewis and am definitely not the only one PP ends up sparring with.  So you can shelve the "one obsessed poster" because others also see the disparities.

There's a huge difference in total enrollment between West Springfield (2650) and Lewis (1685).  Also, West Springfield has the second-highest number of white kids of any HS in FCPS (1289) while Lewis - with which West Springfield shares a long border - has the fewest (193).

Ask yourself if a School Board that really cares about "equity" would not be taking a harder look at Lewis, or at the boundaries in that general area.  And, yes, it would include a look at whether the IB program at Lewis is helping or hurting the school.  And, yes, Lewis also borders other schools besides West Springfield (Annandale, Edison, Hayfield, and South County), although none of those other schools currently has as many students or is as over-enrolled as West Springfield.

You make it extremely personal with other posters, when it's really about the huge gap between the School Board's talk about "equity" and what they really do (or don't do).  [/quote]

Why do you care so much?

I swear the people who constantly bring up Lewis on DCUM (and target WSHS in the process) are people who live in areas zoned for Lewis and are resentful.

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People who get screwed again and again do tend to build up some resentment. Not sure why you would expect something different.[/quote]

Oh, please.[/quote]

So, there won't be any resentment if some WS students are rezoned to Lewis. Good to hear.[/quote]

New poster.

Owning a house that you purchased at $100,000-$200.000 less than houses in a neighboring district knowing perfectly well that the price was lower due to a lower performing high school, is very different than paying a premium and sacrificing things like space for a house zoned for a specific school, then losing $100,000-$200,000 or more in equity, overnight, perhaps putting your house under water, if your house gets rezoned to one of the lowest rated schools in FCPS.

Especially since rezoning a neighborhood will make zero impact on Lewis' ranking, as many of those kids will find a way to not attend Lewis using the AP/IB loophole, or a language not offered at Lewis, or Catholic school.

The only thing rezoning a neighborhood out of Lewis will do is bring down the property values in a significant way for the neighborhood rezoned.[/quote]

Sorry but the whole equity argument is completely invalid. By the same token, those who bought property 10-15 years ago in zones like Lewis, Annandale, and Mt. Vernon should have had the same real estate protections before the school board made decisions to deteriorate their property values. We bought in those zones at a time when there was parity and differences in schools were nowhere near as significant as they are now. We couldn't have predicted that FCPS would neglect the program development of certain pyramids to this extent.[/quote]

Lewis was low ranked 10-15 years ago.[/quote]

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