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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi.  Thanks for reaching out for a perspective from actual parents at these schools. My first daughter graduated from Lee in 2017.  She is in her second year at VCU in their nursing program.  My second daughter who just graduated from Lee last year (2018) is in her first year at UVA in their nursing program.  We have had a great experience at Lee.  Principal Lavery is great and the students are full of life. The teachers are great and the teacher to student ratio is one of the lowest in the County. Both of my daughters participated and excelled in varsity sports also.

They both also attended Key Middle School and we had no problems there.

What I have found generally is the people who are speaking negatively about these schools do not have children that attend these schools.  Due to the negative talk, this pyramid has lost good students who have pupil placed to other schools.  That's unfortunate.  Of course, this affects the overall test scores.

In a lot of those circumstances, we have lost more wealthier parents that affects fundraising and other school activities.  Also, a few school boundary adjustments implemented by the FCPS Board in 2005 and one in 2015 that moved some of the most wealthiest Lee families to West Springfield high school had a detrimental effect.

So there are some challenges, but they are manageable.  Fighting the unwarranted negative discussions has been annoying.[/quote]

I completely agree. Although my kids go to Twain/Edison (which is routinely bashed here), we have a lot of friends from baseball/softball/basketball/swim who go to Key/Lee and the parents are happy with it.  [/quote]

+1 I feel you both as a South Lakes High School pyramid parent.[/quote]

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