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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][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]

Weren't there adjustments to the Springfield magisterial district that supposedly were intended to protect Democrats if Laura Jane Cohen and her colleagues moved part of West Springfield to Lewis?  [/quote]

Yes.

It was a last minute backdoor deal which changed the final redistricting plan, overnight, without allowing the community to give feedback or the current supervisor any heads up until it was a done deal.

They moved the neighborhoods that are walkable to the Springfield Government center over to Lee district, and annexed neghborhoods across town somewhere near Vienna, so that everyone involved has to now drive across town to access things like early voting and their board of supervisor.  [/quote]

Yup. The community of West Springfield was carved between three magisterial districts. Rolling Road is the dividing line. Neighborhoods east of Rolling are now part of the Lee or Braddock districts. West of Rolling remains part of Springfield. Local representation on the Board of Supervisors has been diminished.

The whole equity issue around Lewis HS and its neighbors is starting to ring hollow. WSHS is already majority-minority and I suspect that will only increase as the immediate area continues to diversify.

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There are only three high schools in FCPS that are majority white now - Langley, Madison, and Robinson.

However, West Springfield has the second largest number of white kids of any FCPS high school and Lewis has the fewest; West Springfield has over 800 more kids than Lewis; there’s a big difference in the quality of the facilities; and Lewis isn’t allowed to offer the same AP courses as West Springfield.

Taking that into account, the assertion that equity issues around Lewis “ring hollow” sounds very close to deliberate indifference.  It may get ignored because Derenak Kaufax and Cohen are timid, and Keys Gamarra foolishly thinks her Academy program will draw families to Lewis, but the inequities are real. [/quote]

Lewis is an IB school.

If you want AP, lobby your school board member to get rid of IB and switch Lewis to IB.

Lewis being IB has zero to do with WSHS.

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