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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't have a county-wide school and tolerate the disparities that exist between West Springfield and Lewis.  It's about time they do something about it.

Past School Boards and FCPS staff have absolutely played favorites.  That's how West Springfield got renovated ahead of schedule (trade-off that involved closing Clifton ES) and then got a major expansion courtesy of a former facilities head who went to WSHS.  It's also why schools like Lewis, in contrast, ended up with a poor reputation.  They need to start making amends. [/quote]

Lewis ended up in this situation because of the decade long Mixing Bowl construction project.

Lewis (then Lee) sits directly inside.

For years, the high school and surrounding neighborhoods were directly under all the noise, mess, traffic problems and toxic dust of that gigantic, drawn our construction project.

Any family that could afford to move elsewhere did.

They were replaced by recent immigrant families that were happy to have a nice home in a neighborhood with manicured lawns, nice sidewalks, and things like grocery stores, restaurants, jobs,  malls, schools and public transit within walking distance.

As the number of non English speaking working class and lower class families increased, Lewis's test scores decreased, making it increasingly undesirable to families with kids, even after the Mixing Bowl construction ended.

That construction project sent Lewis on its downfall.

To claim otherwise and blaming the neighboring school's families is complete ignorance and ignores the true catalyst of Lewis/Lee's decline.[/quote]

There were multiple UMC areas redistricted out of Lee/Lewis over the years.  Same thing happened at Annandale.  Also no MS AAP centers in those pyramids.

It's not about blaming families in neighboring pyramids, but about acknowledging that past decisions had consequences that disadvantage current students at Key and Lewis. [/quote]

Got it, so redrawing the boundaries is about reparations, except instead of exorbitant monetary payments for these past supposed transgressions we send kids as tribute.  The kids become the resource.

Why don’t more people support the school board in this endeavor I wonder?[/quote]

[b]It's reprehensible that the blameless victims in this will be a number of military children[/b] in the WSHS pyramid. Kids who already moved several times and finally found stability in a military-dense school pyramid. Kids in military communities bond because of shared experiences and lifestyles and hardships.  While there's a lot of transient military, a good percentage of military buy/bought in WSHS for the military community and if they have to leave keep their home with intentions of returning.  Just really awful to think that a number of them are going to have their lives upended.  [/quote]

Blah, blah, blah military families. There are a lot of military kids out there and they aren’t whining. Lemme guess, you are an officer and complaining about your kid getting mixed with enlisted. Stop complaining. Hurry up and wait for this. [/quote]

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