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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did meeting go tonight? Takeaways?[/quote]

One big takeaway is that they seem to be planning to reduce transfers and are managing that process differently next school year. It may be harder for a student to transfer out for language, for example, because they will make alternative options available. [/quote]

My takeaways:

--Lewis parents (like myself) are very upset that this boundary process did nothing to actually move more students to Lewis.
--We are upset that they would even consider moving more kids out of Lewis (Rolling Valley).  But it seems that this came to a surprise at Dr. Reid so I'm hopeful this will be fixed in scenero 5.
--We need to be supportive of cracking down on reasons for kids to leave Lewis
--Our parents and community are wonderful and Lewis is a great school, but we need more students

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Are you lobbying to get rid of IB?  That is the ticket out.[/quote]
Edison HS receives the most Lewis transfers and is also an IB school. [/quote]

Those are transfers in for Edison’s specialty programs - the STEM academy and the career/vocational programs. They half-heartedly tried to get a special program at Lewis in the leadership academy, but it doesn’t seem to be drawing too many out of boundary students - especially now with the immigration crack downs and fears.

I feel like they have two options, realistically, if they actually want to boost Lewis. One is cut out IB entirely for all AP classes. That would end the IB>AP transfer loophole - presumably most of those students end up at Hayfield or Lake Braddock so they would then return to Lewis. The second option is more drastic and that is eliminate IB at all the other nearby schools, but keep it at Lewis and allow transfers in for any student who wanted to do a full IB program. However neither of these would help with the numbers of transfers to Edison for their specialty programs, which sounds like the biggest destination for students who would otherwise be attending Lewis. So maybe Lewis needs more career/technical programs at their own campus … but that would likely require a lot of physical renovations that they also don’t seem likely to do. [/quote]

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