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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listening to the meeting last night, clearly something else needs to be done. But I'm sure the school board/Reid are not bold enough to do it and will cave to parents. Parents raised concerns over crowding at WSHS, and also that moving students from WSHS to LB will cause over-crowding issues in the next few years. Why is the only solution for WSHS over-crowding is to move them to LB?

Lewis borders WSHS and is severely under-enrolled. The change that needs to happen is that WSHS students need to be moved to Lewis, not to LB. But hearing parents raise concerns about moving from WSHS to LB, I'm sure the board is too scared to propose this change. I've lost faith in this entire process. [/quote]

Not one parent said they were concerned WSHS is overcrowded. [/quote]

That is not completely accurate.

The Keene Mill mom on zoom though that WSHS will still be overcrowded and more need to get rezoned out of WSHS.[/quote]

Not what she said. And it’s wild how families are actively targeting other neighborhoods thru the tool. [/quote]

FCPS is openly telling families at the meeting to use the tool to give them specific suggestions and alternatives, if you don't want your neighborhood rezoned.

The Thru consultant must have told us that 2-3 times at our community meeting.

What did the Keene Mill mom online say?

I heard her say that going down to 106% was not enough and we need to look at other ways. (Paraphrasing)[/quote]
Not sure if that’s the same person but someone who raised overcrowding was talking about residency check and transfers to a closed school.[/quote]

I think that was the woman who suggested no moves should be made until those things happened.  [/quote]

I do not think that parent is wrong.  There is a lot of issues in the calculations.  Modulars are considered part of the utilization but not trailers.  Which is insane.  We should try to have kids back in the schools.  No students should be moved into a school that is close to 100% (because likely that school is using modulars as well - are there any schools that don't have them?) But they are doing that.  That should be the first priority of boundary review.[/quote]

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