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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Been Mar got last minute screwed in the Annandale boundary change and now will get last minute screwed for Lewis. At least FCPS is consistent in its screwing of poor kids.[/quote]

What do you want them to do in that area of the county, exactly? The demographics are what they are. It looks like they’re going to boost enrollment at Lewis and make a move out of Edison to prepare for the new development there. It is a move that makes sense. [/quote]

If any move is made at this late stage to Bren Mar, it should be to send it back to Annandale.[/quote]

That’s not a late change. It’s what Scenario 4 has proposed for months. Moving BMP to Lewis rather than back to Annandale would be the last-minute change. [/quote]

Annandale has a 14 room modular installed in 2011.  Don't know if it was new or relocated. 8 trailers with the same square footage as used for it's neighborhood center. 5 others HS's have modulars and 3 are from 2005 [Chantilly, Robinson, Centreville].  Mclean's was a relocated modular-not new so you can't estimate perhaps a 25 year useful life off the year installed.

Bren Mar to Lewis is logical instead of Annandale based on the modular and it's condition.  Then there is the 109% projected utilization for Poe becoming an AAP center.  Maybe they'll do K-6 at Bren Mar Park with tweaks to pre K sites and feed it to Lewis pyramid OR change it's boundary.

That 10.4m annual cost for years on transportation plus the 918k on one school, Kent Gardens, make us wonder why FCPS doesn't provide numbers on the cost for MS AAP buses.  That Franklin to Carson shuffle plus stuff to Rocky Run have huge numbers and cover wide territory in FCPS.  I think the SB had excessive grandfathering on Kent Gardens.  That SB voted for the scheme and at large should have pushed the envelope and moved Spring Hill Island.  Grandfathering with transportation should be: Elementary final year only, none on MS and move all AAP to base, grades 11 and 12 high school because of the hideous IB.  South County opened with grade 11[/quote]

[b]Key is getting AAP level 4, with no more transfers out of Key for AAP.[/b]

I am not sure which center(s) Key feeds into, but adding AAP to Key will fix many of Lewis and Key's issues, especially the hundreds of students who transfer out of Lewis each year.

If FCPS can just grow a brain and ditch IB at Lewis for AP plus dual for the B students, then Lewis might be in a very different and much more positive condition in 2-3 years when the current Key AAP kids start to remain at Lewis.[/quote]

That's great for Key.  Any more backdoor approaches on this issue supposed to be discussed/dealt with spring 2026?  When Robinson got that modular it was up to about 3000 in grades 9-12.  Why is it still there and why the trailers?  If needed for instruction that could be due to the dual program IB and AP.  FCPS does not tell the public .  But Reid as a Supt did state IB is more expensive to implement and run .  No public numbers per school ever given![/quote]

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