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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm amazed no one from Westfield is raging in here[/quote]

I am reasonably certain that is why Westfield is going to end up losing so many students with limited backfill. The Centreville and Chantilly families have been very vocal about not wanting to move and Westfield has been quiet.

The people who have made the most noise got what they wanted. Crossfield is unhappy because it got what it wanted just not in a way that they wanted it. [/quote]

Well, the families who aren't being zoned out of Westfield can't really advocate for...other neighborhoods to be moved in? How would that work exactly, without sounding totally racist and classist?

It's FCPS's responsibility---that they are abdicating completely--to make fair decisions on behalf of all the schools. [/quote]

It is up to Westfield families to be demanding backfill and not ot be allowed to drop towhatever percentage they are at.

What percentage is SLHS going to be? I don't think they are losing that many kids, the Floris and Fox Mill groups are pretty small. I know the SLHS PTA didn't seem to think that the 45 or so 9th graders that opted in to Skyview was that big a deal, it was like 4% of the overall student body. [/quote]

I don't think there is any way to do that--organize to tell FCPS to move other people into your school? [/quote]

Yes, it happens regularly. It was the contentious bit of the county wide redistricting. Lewis parents are still upset that Lewis did not get students moved into Lewis and WSHS was left badly over crowded. There was more money and louder voices in the WSHS community fighting being moved to Lewis. The Lewis families that were active were 100% petitioning for kids from WSHS to be moved into Lewis to shore up Lewis's number and the number of kids in the IB program.

More likely then not, the new rule preventing pupil placement for foreign languages was meant to remove one method people pupil place out of Lewis. Kids pupil placing for AP and a language were being allowed to pupil place at overcrowded schools. Now that the rule is only AP or IB for pupil placement, parents pupil placing out of Lewis have to go to the nearest AP school with space, and that is not likely to be close by. Parents will have to chose between driving their kids farther for AP, to avoid Lewis, or send their kid to Lewis, or send their kid to private.

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Eliminating IB would solve more of the pupil placement, I think, than foreign language.  Also, "mental health" used to be popular.  Not sure if it is now or not.  I know someone who used that because he wanted to be on a better sports team.  His mother said he had "social issues."  (He had been selected as captain of his team.  that doesn't sound like he had social issues to me,)[/quote]

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