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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving students is not the answer.

Make the school better.  There is nothing wrong with a 1500 population high

I went to a suburban high school.  There were 276 people in my graduating class.

Sure, a very large school is able to offer more variety of classes, but just because some different classes are offered does not mean that every kid who is interested will be able to take it

But, once more, what is IB doing for Lewis?  Is it an advantage or a disadvantage.  In my view, it is a huge disadvantage.  It is far less flexible than AP and it is more difficult to get college credit for them.  It also enables a mass exodus of transfers to AP high schools.[/quote]

Going down a division isn't bad -- until you realize that all the schools in the vicinity are a higher division. Which means if Lewis wants to play schools of a similar size and the same division, the students will have to travel beyond FCPS boundaries, traveling more than an hour or so. That's more money spent for transportation, and also the massive amounts of time Lewis students will spent on a bus being carted around. In the meantime, there are schools minutes away, like Edison and Hayfield and WSHS, but Lewis would be in a different division.

Also pointing out that the nearby schools are overcrowded. WSHS is overcrowded to the point where kids can't make sports teams unless they've been playing since they were five years old.

IB is not the magic fairy godmother that people think it is. You don't wave it away and think that suddenly students will unfurl into existence like a sparkling ball gown. It doesn't work that way. Not with an IB school right next door to Lewis. [/quote]

Move Daventry to Lewis and Bren Mar Park to Lewis. Edison and WSHS both get some relief and Lewis gets 500+ new students. Done.[/quote]

I would probably move those Keene Mill neighborhoods above to Lewis before Daventry, since they are the closest to Lewis with the easiest commute. [/quote]

Right….. make a triple split feeder out of Keene mill or split feeder of Irving? Makes no sense. How about fix
Lewis?[/quote]

Moving Daventry to Lewis would create a solit feeder at West Springfield Elementary, the smallest school in the WSHS pyramid and a school around 60% the size of Keene Mill.

Look, I don't think that anyone should get rezoned, but if they are moving someone, those 2 Keene Mill neighborhoods make the most sense, since they are the closest neighborhoods to Lewis.[/quote]

Nah-you are playing the “point the finger at someone else” game instead of saying no one should be moved. If you are comparing Daventry to the KMES neighborhoods.

Taking the KMES neighborhoods will do the following:

-make KMES a triple split feeder: Braddock, Irving and key. 
-destroy a walk zone therefore putting kids on a bus that aren’t one on.
-take a lot of the diversity out of Irving because KMES is the most diverse school in the pyramid
-takes those kids to the 3rd furthest away high school (both WSHS and Braddock are closer)

Taking Daventry:
-keeps kids on a bus on a bus
-takes kids further away from WSHS to Lewis (which is the 2nd close high school)
-add a higher SES and more white kids to Lewis (which seems to be a goal)

This game was played over and over again during the boundary review.

Start advocating for NO ONE TO LEAVE and to FIX LEWIS rather than this misguided game. [/quote]

Keene Mill is NOT currently a split feeder.

It would NOT become a triple split feeder.

Those kids who attend Lake Braddock from Keene Mill elementary are either AAP kids choosing to attend school out of pyramid to go to Keene Mill for AAP,  or Keene Mill/Irving zoned kids who choose to go out of pyramid to Lake Braddock for AAP.  That is not a split feeder.  It is a single feeder school with a special program that accepts out of bounds students.

Every single elementary school zoned for Irving has AAP students that choose split off to Lake Braddock for AAP, including the elementary school that Daventry is zoned for, West Springfield Elementary.

By your logic, using AAP as a reason to call your school a "triple" split feeder  sending Daventry to Lewis would make tiny West Springfield Elementary a "triple" split feeder since they also have AAP students that attend Lake Braddock.  Every WSHS elementary school sends AAP students to Lake Braddock, so rezoning any of them would create a " triple" split feeder by your logic.

Heck, Orange Hunt would become a "quadruple" or "quintuple" split feeder if one of their neighborhoods was rezoned to a different high school.

The only actual split feeder zoned for WSHS is Rolling Valley, sending kids to both Lewis and WSHS.  Rolling Valley also has a special ed program that accepts kids from several pyramids, so by your logic Rolling Valley is currently a "triple" or maybe "quadruple" split feeder based on its housing a special program.

An elementary school sending kids to Lake Braddock for AAP, or accepting out of bounds kids for AAP does not make a school a split feeder.  It simply makes the school a school with a special program that accepts out if bounds kids.

Keene Mill is not currently a split feeder, and would not become a triple split feeder if the nearest WSHS neighborhoods to Lewis were rezoned to Lewis.

If Keene Mill people stopped trying to offer up other farther away neighborhoods such as Daventry to Lewis, then there would be no more need to point out the obvious, that Keene Mill has the closest WSHS neighborhoods to Lewis of any of the WSHS elementary schools, including being a shorter drive to Lewis than the Daventry neighborhoods.[/quote]

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