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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they move BMP to Key/Lewis then Holmes ends up seriously under capacity.  They just trade the problem at Lewis for a new problem at Holmes.

They should either be moving kids from Irving/West Springfield to Key/Lewis or leaving the boundaries alone and looking for other ways to improve Key/Lewis, such as adding AAP to Key and replacing IB at Lewis with AP. [/quote]

Moving some edge boundary kids from WS to Lewis isn’t going to yield the number of students needed to really bump up enrollment at Lewis. It will be the opposite of Daventry. They thought they were closing a small split feeder since there were very few HS students living there. In reality, when the area was moved from Lewis to WSHS, the number of HS students ballooned because people were no longer seeking pupil placements, moving right before high school started, or lying about their address. What looked like maybe 20-30 students on paper ended up being many more.

If you move some Keene Mill or West Springfield border neighborhoods, people will just start moving when they hit middle or high school age. You’ll think you’re getting maybe 75-100 high school students (which really is not a lot compared to the numbers at a whole elementary school …) but they’d be lucky to end up with 25 when all is said and done.  [/quote]

This is the exact logic employed to justify moving another group of people to Lewis who don’t want to go there:  “they won’t have the same options as we have, so you’ll get more bodies if you move BMP rather than us.”

Never mind that WSHS is the most overcrowded HS in the county and moving BMP would leave Holmes seriously under-capacity.

Our empress has no clothes. [/quote]

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