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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am from the area.

They need to get rid of IB and that stupid new social justice magnet dreamed up by the school board that zero people within a reasonable driving distance are interested in, make Lewis a magnet for something desireable to that cohort, like a centralized technical/trades academy (moving the academy classes from far off, overcrowded WestPo to centrally located, just off the beltway Lewis.  There are plenty of WSHS, LB, SoCo and surrounding kids who drive all the way to WPo who would love to be able to attend Academy classes in a convenient, centralized location. (ie NOT inconvenient WestPo)  There are also a lot of recent immigrant and non-college bound kids at Lewis who whould strongly benefit from having academy classes that are easy to attend and not an insurmountable hardship which they currently are due to location.

Keep IB and make Lewis the only IB magnet in that part of the country.  Then, ditch the stupid social justice program, and make Lewis a centralized magnet for all the languages that are hard to get in that half of the county.  Keep German, Spanish and French at WSHS, but offer Spanish, plus Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Latin, Korean, Russian, etc as a magnet specific to Lewis.  And with the classical focus of IB and languages, dump some money into the fine arts department, specifically orchestra, band and choir, so the activities that appeal to the IB cohort are robust and top of the line.

This would fix their issues without messing with a single boundary, save money on IB, and gix the West Po crowding an renovation waste issue.

That is what I would do with Lewis if I were king of the day for FCPS.[/quote]

All of this has been recommended to FCPS for decades though. They seem determined to have that area fail and do nothing that you suggest. Stagnation is the exact opposite of what is planned for new development making them look dumber and dumber. Can't fix stupid.[/quote]

The schools that are failing are failing because of student demographics. Move low income housing en masse to Langley and it would resemble these schools too. The county is fine with concentrating poverty and a byproduct of concentrated poverty is terrible schools [/quote]

No, nobody sends their kids to those schools because of IB and lack of AP.[/quote]

Who knows. With Skills based grading, maybe IB will become more popular.[/quote]

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