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[quote=Anonymous]Lewis (and probably also Mount Vernon) right now is in a really bad spot. The other lower or mixed income HS’s are much larger and/or still have a cohort of middle class and even wealthy families. On some level, the SB/Reid/Facilities planning etc. all know that if they move in more areas without drastically changing the programming at Lewis, the people they move in will just pupil place out under FCPS’s established rules.

The main issue is Lewis has only 2 languages and IB. They will not dump IB. The FCPS powers-that-be LOOOOVE IB. They love the buzzwords that come along with it. The “life long learners” and “global citizens” and all that. They simply cannot admit that it has been a decades long expensive failure at many schools that have it. I think getting rid of IB at Lewis would trigger a lot of parent complaints from the other schools that have it “why won’t you get rid of it here too and give us all the AP classes that X school 3 miles down the road has” and FCPS doesn’t want to go down that route because there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle once that happens. IB is their pet project and I think they would easily put it in at more schools if they thought they could get away with it. Or dump AP for something else that has the right buzzy buzzwords like Sandy Anderson wanted to do.

They could offer more languages virtually or with a traveling teacher who would cover multiple schools. But the bigger issues are IB, as well as the academy/vocational classes at Edison right down the road. They can’t invest in and change Lewis’s programming without a bunch of other schools clamoring to change their programming too and FCPS doesn’t want to go down that route, so now Lewis is in a death spiral until/unless families start moving in the developments that are coming into Springfield in the coming years. I think they’re hanging their hopes on a greater/increasing Springfield population at this point so they don’t have to make any big programming changes and possibly set off a chain of other schools asking for the same changes. [/quote]

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