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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does everyone see how hard WS posters are fighting the suggestions that any WS kids ever get zoned to Lewis? Any of the other surrounding schools would be fine.

That is what happens when you concentrate all of the poor and ESL students.

FCPS needs a reckoning on this.[/quote]

There's no getting around the fact that there is going to be a concentration of "poor and ESL students", as you say, in a particular area. It's the place they can afford to live!

We live in walking distance of West Springfield so I have no fears personally about shifting boundaries, but in terms of community and neighborhood, definitely Lewis and Edison should be your discussion, not Lewis and WS. I too rolled my eyes a bit when Daventry shifted to WSHS from Lewis, but they are, in terms of how our neighborhoods are laid out, definitely a West Springfield community.

My kids went to Rolling Valley which is also a split feeder. [b]About 10% of our students go to Lewis (the rest to WSHS).[/b] Every single family I know personally in that Lewis group moved, placed into a specialty program (like stem at Edison), had divorced parents and chose the other parent's high school (like South County), or chose private high school. They should focus on improving Lewis rather than trying to move kids there who have the resources to just choose somewhere else for high school. It won't help enrollment at Lewis at all to shift a few neighborhoods from West Springfield there. [/quote]

90-10 split feeders are just a bad idea generally.  In general, the 10% ends up less invested in the public school system.  This isn't just a Lewis issue. [/quote]

I agree.

Unless the schools are very similar with overlapping communities.

Sangster is a good example.  Most of the achools goes to Lake Braddock.  The neighborhood Sangster sits in goes to West Springfield.

Thos two high schools are very interchangeable, because there is a lot of community overlap from things like little league, swim team, scouts, church, milktary families, etc.  There is so much overlap.  The WSHS and LBSS communitjes are intertwined.  No one in either community would blink an eye over getting rezoned back or forth between either of those schools.  They are a shared community, and the two schools are fairly equivalent.

Lewis is different in that it very separate community wise. These is no overlap anywhere.  There is even a physical boundary of the mixing bowl.

I personally believe all split feeders should be eliminated wherever possible, certainly those that are less than 10%.

If rezoning were to happen, it should be Sangster to Lake Braddock, and the elimination of the Rolling Valley split feeder, with all of those houses zoned for WSHS.

Saratoga or Lewis should not even be part of the discussion of any rezoning of WSHS.[/quote]

The Rolling Valley 10% split to Lewis should be rezoned to Saratoga ES. Then they are in the Lewis pyramid the entire time. No more split. Plenty of room at Saratoga.[/quote]

That makes zero sense.

Really, this is a WSHS/LBSS conversation.  Not a Saratoga/Lewis conversation.[/quote]

It makes perfect sense. The issue being a split feeder. You can either solve that at the low end (elementary school) or the high end (high school). Since WS is at capacity it makes sense to make the switch at the elementary level. And Saratoga has plenty of room.[/quote]

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