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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lewis serves central Springfield, which is majority Latino and has relatively lower incomes compared to surrounding areas. The school has higher ESL and FARMS numbers and lower test scores compared to other high schools.

Lewis also serves some middle and upper middle income neighborhoods on the fringes of central Springfield and to the south of it. These  are the areas from which most of the chatter about Lewis originate — people who are upset that their neighborhoods aren’t zoned to other high schools with lower ESL and FARMS numbers and higher so-called prestige, or people who are upset that FCPS doesn’t rezone more higher income neighborhoods into Lewis so they can feel better about themselves.

Let’s be real here and stop screwing around. People with economic means don’t want their kids to go to Lewis and most people who send their kids to Lewis aren’t on DCUM.[/quote]

Got it. Only people who live in certain areas should get a good education.[/quote]

This is the reality of public education. You must have been born yesterday.[/quote]

Not in FCPS. This is a pretty recent development. The last 15 years has seen a huge change. And FCPS has only contributed to the problem.[/quote]

DP. [b]What could FCPS done differently?[/b] The influx of kids from the border + FCPS apparent inability to put them in separate classrooms made this inevitable.

Test scores will suffer. There will be behavior problems. Importing poverty to the county does lead to these outcomes. I fault FCPS for some things done poorly but this really isn't in their control to fix. We have poured so much money into this problem and still get terrible results. [/quote]

I am glad to see you identified the root cause of the problem - unfettered immigration. But what could FCPS have done differently:

Not moving out wealthier neighborhoods the last two times they changed boundaries. Keeping all AAP kids in the pyramid in ES and MS. Dropping IB and reinstating AP when it was clear IB was driving an exodus. Trying to keep the language program more robust. Not creating yet another program at a nearby school - Edison STEM - that is siphoning off students. All of these things have contributed to the demise of a once standard FCPS high school. FCPS has decided that certain schools will have to suffer the majority of immigrant students.[/quote]

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