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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the other Sangster families offended, puzzled or amused by the whole the Sangster kids who go to Lake Braddock aren't our community argument?

There is definitely talk in surrounding communities about that angle, not about the kids at Irving but the families without kids at Irving.

One LB parent spoke up 2 meetings ago about that argument,  and she did seem a bit offended and a little befuddled.[/quote]

Why would you consider kids who went to school with your kid for 6+ years to be part of your community? One kid spoke at the Irving meeting about how he desperately didn't want to lose all of the new friends he's met (in one quarter of school) this year at Irving and pleaded to stay there instead of being sent to LBSS, where his former Sangster classmates of seven years went.

:?  [/quote]

You are talking about and mocking a child. What you failed to mention is that he said he has a sibling at WSHS, so of course that school would feel more like his community than LB.[/quote]

Sangster is located within the WSHS boundary. It is inside the neighborhood of Orange Hunt Estates. Those of us who live there understand that we are assigned to Sangster as the elementary school because we are walkers. We would have to be bused to Orange Hunt Elementary. The Sangster/Orange Hunt boundary is at the point 1 mile from the school. So that is why we identify as living in West Springfield and see Irving/West Springfield as our child’s school. The first iteration of the boundary scenarios did not “fix” our split feeder because Sangster is located within the WSHS boundary. And we don’t want our split feeder fixed.

There are better solutions to overcrowding at WSHS. Shifting children living on West Springfield/Lewis boundary to Lewis, which has room. Moving German immersion (Did you know Orange Hunt is over capacity too thanks to transfers in for German immersion???) to White Oaks and Lake Braddock pyramid, which have room.

But really let’s wait and see. West Springfield is full of government civilians. Let’s see what happens with Trump and his downsizing of the government workforce. Families are going to have to leave for other employment opportunities. [/quote]

I am sorry, but the Sangster split feeder to Lake Braddock is the lowest hanging fruit and the only logical solution for WSHS if a neighborhood must be rezoned.

You suggesting that a split feeder should be created in other neighborhoods so you can avoid, of all schools, Lake Braddock, where 80% of your kids classmates go and which Sangster is very connected to is stunning.  Especially when you consider that any WSHS neighborhood rezoned to Lewis, what you are asking for, is asking for a different neighborhood to literally get rezoned out of their community, which is not the case with Sangster to Lake Braddock.

Lake Braddock is part of the Sangster community.  WSHS less so.

Sangster will lose all support from the other WSHS communities if pushing out one of the other schools to Lewis so you don't have to go to Lake Braddock is your game plan now.

Unbelievable.

I, and others who are not Sangster families have been working to keep all of WSHS intact.  If this is what the Sangster split feeder is now pushing for, that support for you staying at WSHS is over from me and likely many others.[/quote]

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