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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about the homeowners and non-ESL students that live in the Lewis boundaries? They should be forced to move to other schools and see their home values suffer? Doesn't seem right to me.[/quote]

Wtf are you babbling about? How would their home values suffer going to a better performing school with more kids? Seems like it would be a win for them.

But, to be fair, I don’t think they should have to move if they don’t want to. 1,500 students is only a critical shortfall if you are trying to make a blatant equity play. It’s the people in Lewis pyramid trying to bolster their own house value at the expense of their neighbors.[/quote]

I'm asking why people in the Lewis pyramid who are not ESL should have to transfer to other schools to find similar cohorts and challenging classes. That is the situation now and will continue to be unless something is done to help the school. Why are some pyramids designated as the permanent home of the poor and ESL populations? That is how FCPS is treating them. How is that fair to the homeowners in the Lewis pyramid? They moved higher income areas from Gambrill Road and Daventry to West Springfield. That helped their property values. Was that fair to the homeowners still zoned to Lewis? Maybe some people are tired of being dumped on.[/quote]

Gambrill Road was moved back to WSHS 20+ years ago because it was a split feeder. The kids went to Hunt Valley and Irving and then Lee. The neighborhoods wanted their kids to not lose all their friends for HS. I don’t know the history of Daventry.

We all spent 2 years arguing this issue in other threads. The school board didn’t move the WSHS neighborhoods to Lewis. There are a few changes they are still looking at, including Rolling Valley and eliminating an attendance island. I’d suggest focusing on those areas because that’s what the school board said it would do. [/quote]

Daventry was the same.

The last split feeder in the WSHS pyramid is Rolling Valley.

Keene Mill is not a split feeder.  They are an AAP center where AAP kids get to pick between Irving or Lake Braddock.  That is not a split feeder.  That is a chouce that some families get while other do not.[/quote]

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