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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the numbers.

Around 100+ students need to be moved out of WSHS to get it into that 105% capacity goal that FCPS said they want.

The only way to accomplish this at WSHS without creating new split feeders is to eliminate the Sangster split feeder and send all of Sangster to Lake Braddock.

Do you want to create a split feeder at West Springfield Elementary, sending Daventry back to Lewis?  Or a Keene Mill split feeder, sending the neighborhood on Tiverton to Lewis?  Or a Hunt Valley split feeder, sending the end of Gambrill to South County?  How about adding 2 or 3 new split feeders to WSHS, so the Sangster split feeder doesn't need to go to, gasp, Lake Braddock?

Or how about closing the Rolling Valley split feeder by sending all of Rolling Valley to Lewis?  Is that preferable?  Sure, they are only 1 mile from WSHS, and would need to pass by several elementary schools to get there, but better to close their split feeder by sending them all to Lewis, and let the other Sangster split feeder remain.

Lake Braddock is an equal school to WSHS by every single metric, and better in some like SAT scores.  Most of the Sangster community already attends Lake Braddock.  Sangster does most of its pyramid activites with Lake Braddock, not WSHS.  It will eliminate 2 entire bus routes, hitting the transportation priority of FCPS.  Lake Braddock is only a little over 1 mile farther than WSHS, and does not have any major natural barriers between the Sangster neighborhood and LB, another FCPS rezoning priority. There are so few negatives to this move, especially if FCPS can be convinced to grandfather the 7th and 8th graders through to WSHS so they have continuity.

No one likes to be rezoned, but of all the possible outcomes for WSHS, this is the best solution and the most equal school change.  There really aren't solutions for WSHS that will make everyone happy.  Entire neighborhoods are going to be unhappy no matter what FCPS decides to do.  Since someone from WSHS is getting rezoned, the only certain outcome to this process, sending all of Sangster to Lake Braddock really is the best option among a lot of bad options.

I do agree though that if WSHS is so overcrowded that neighborhoods need to be moved out, then not a single house should be moved into WSHS, especially not from an underenrolled school.

Either WSHS is overcrowded and must have houses moved out, or it has room for new students, therefore no current neighborhoods, including the Sangster split feeder, should be rezoned out.  Both things cannot be true.  It is one or the other, and neither one has room for Rolling Valley to move into WSHS.[/quote]

I have no dog in this particular fight, but with the continuous population changes in FCPS zones, there will always be split feeders.  And honestly, what happens in five years when LB is overcrowded?  Will they bounce that neighborhood back?  [/quote]

If Lake Braddock needs to be rezoned in a few years?

Most likely, the outcome would be either moving a neighborhood on the other side of Lake Braddock to Robinson, another equal swap, or a neighborhood on the far ends of Lake Braddock to South County, which in a couple of years might be much higher ranked.

It is doubtful that FCPS would send that Sangster neighborhood back to WSHS from LBSS.  It sounds like you are unfamiliar with that area, so to put it into perspective, most of the neighborhoods zoned for WSHS are within 2-3 miles of the school.  It is such a compact boundary, that it does not make sense to move any neighborhoods into WSHS, not now and probably impossible when FCPS rezones in 5 years.[/quote]

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