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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
Did you not know your school pyramid before you bought your house?

And as for being dumped on, yeah, FCPS families are overwhelmingly tired of this boundary change crap. The school board wasted years on it instead of working to improve the school system. The opportunity cost is through the roof on boundary changes, and they’re going to run it back in four years. It’s insanity.[/quote]

I bought my house a long time ago and that is irrelevant. A resident anywhere in the county should expect that their schools will be reasonably equitable (not perfectly equal, but not so disparate that they are treated as pariahs). Lewis is clearly being separated from the rest of the other county high schools. Potentially with Mt. Vernon joining it with its shrinking enrollment.[/quote]
Oh yeah, you’re totally right, schools are irrelevant when families choose their house. In fact, no one really cares where their kids go to school.

Do you even hear yourself?

To learn, you should go to a boundary change meeting and try to peddle that line. See what reaction you get. It took the school board two years, but by the end, they finally understood that school boundary changes are the most rage-inducing thing they can do. People across the county hate their school board members for what they’ve done.[/quote]

I hope they show up to actually vote them out, instead of carry forward the status quo of woke idiots running the school board.  Two years ago, we had a really competent challenger to Robyn Lady.  And yet, the woke idiotic crowd that is now complaining up a storm about Robyn Lady all voted her in.  Y'all deserve exactly what the school board is dishing out to you ... bc you're the ones to blame for this catastrophe!  [/quote]

They won't.

Franconia district where Lewis is located votes overwhelmingly drmocratic.  They could run a hoat for school board in Franconia and the hoat would win.

If the Lewis parents want to send a message to the school board that soneone needs to start caring about Lewis, they would run either an independent or republican candidate, then do a huge get out the vote effort, including getting Lewis seniors involved,  and flip that seat from solidly democratic to anyone but a democratic endorsed candidate

That would send shock waves to the school board and perhaps get their attention about how badly they have neglected Lewis.[/quote]

This would be a Herculean effort in such a Democratic district. This shouldn't even be a partisan issue. The current Franconia School Member should clearly explain why she is not advocating for IB to be replaced with AP at Lewis (the IB diploma numbers have been terrible for years and it drives pupil placement). Why she is not advocating for AAP at Key. Why she is not advocating to send the Saratoga kids to Springfield Estates for AAP. These things have been pointed out before with no movement.

And as far a purchasing a home - it is wrong to tell people that they bought in the wrong part of the county and therefore should expect a bad school. In a county system you should not have schools that are so different right next to each other. Simply starting with enrollment- West Springfield is close to twice the size as Lewis. ESL numbers are 35% at Lewis and around 5% at WS. When Gambrill and Daventry were moved to West Springfield, those were literally the wealthiest areas sending kids to Lee and they moved them to a wealthier school. They knew what the consequences would be. I don't expect WS and Lewis to be exactly the same, but the difference has become ridiculous.[/quote]

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