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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]West Springfield has over 2800 kids but they are proposing to kick kids out of Edison because they think Lewis needs more kids?  Pathetic. [/quote]

Edison is already at capacity and there are new housing developments being built literally within walking distance at the old Top Golf and the old local government building. They are going to have to do something about capacity there in the next 5 years and the Bryn Mar Park option seems like a pretty solid solution. [/quote]

Uh huh.  Because that POS facilities guy who went to West Springfield (Platenberg) made sure West Springfield got a much bigger expansion than Edison when they were renovated within years of one another?

Move BMP to Lewis and then both Edison and Lewis will have 1800-1850 kids while West Springfield is closer to 2800.  
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Okay.  But…. WSHS doesn’t feel over crowded and it isn’t a growth area. Projections have it growing by 1 student.  Would you pull kids out and then have WSHS be an empty building? AT this point, you can’t really

I think the commute to Lewis sucks from everywhere but that immediate community.  No one wants to trudge through the mixing bowl to attend events or have their new driver driving there.  It needs a different solution, and or a huge renovation to make it more appealing.

Instead the board is offering sky view on the other side of the county.  I hope one of the members creates a bond to make Lewis upgraded and appealing. Maybe more the academies out of Edison and make Lewis academy only so kids and buses are in after rush hour and out before rush hour.

PS- the WSHS principal is out on medical leave.  I hope he recovers fully and quickly.[/quote]

According to FCPS West Springfield has been above the 105% capacity threshold that was used to justify boundary changes at lots of other schools every year since 2022-23 (four years in a row).

Claiming it doesn't feel overcrowded is just another way to say you don't want to be treated the same as other schools because you consider Lewis beneath you.  If anyone should be moved to Lewis, they should come from a school that has ACTUALLY been over 105% capacity for the last four years, not one that MIGHT be over 105% at some later date.  If eliminating the split feeder at Holmes remains a priority, that is most easily achieved by moving Bren Mar Park to Annandale, and not by moving it to both Key and Lee.

Further, they don't have the money to upgrade Lewis now, and if anything the money being spent on Skyview will delay a Lewis renovation.  There are at least two other high schools that are older than Lewis and logically should be renovated before Lewis.  However, that's not a reason not to move kids to Lewis if it has room.

It's utterly despicable that they are looking to gut Holmes and Edison as a last resort to increase the enrollment at Lewis, when Lewis borders a high school with over 2800 kids.  [/quote]

The money came from somewhere to buy sky view. Bonds pass all the time why go against making a bond that helps the Springfield/ Annandale area? Is the extra money only for the northern parts of Fairfax?

Do you think they should ignore the Edison slated growth? That seems like poor planning and a way to ensure yet another round of crappy changes.

I really do understand your anger but the constant diversion of naming other areas to solve a problem is something I can’t and won’t get behind. Throwing another group of kids under the bus so your kid is “safe” is gross. [/quote]

The proposal of tossing Edison kids at Lewis to increase the enrollment there has been the West Springfield strategy for some time.

Edison is not at the level of crowding that has triggered boundary changes; its enrollment has declined over the course of this school year; and the "slated growth" to which you refer may or may not come to pass and, if it does, could be offset by declines in enrollment in other areas zoned to Edison.

Your hypocrisy is obvious: Ignore the years of actual overcrowding at West Springfield and focus instead on potential overcrowding elsewhere. [/quote]

What are you talking about? Do you live in the area? They are building new homes at the old Top Golf which is right down Van Dorn St from Edison[/quote]

It’s so stupid to pretend they have to change boundaries every time some new dwellings get built.  You aren’t fooling anyone with this nonsense.

Come back when Edison - like West Springfield - has been over 105% capacity year after year.  [/quote]

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