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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need the school board members to stay out of boundaries so they can be redone objectively instead of politically/catering to the loudest voices. There isn’t enough money to just keep adding capacity at favored schools (not to mention ignoring other schools).[/quote]

Were school board members simply more enlightened roughly 15- 20 years ago when the South Lakes HS boundaries were redone? Why is that much harder to do these days? [/quote]

The Hunter Mill rep on the School board at the time was from Reston/South Lakes.  He fought very hard to get kids from other schools reassigned to South Lakes.

So he pulled it off, but there was a lot of bitterness about the process and later School Board members are more interested in their future political careers and aren’t as willing to take the flak.

Also a school like Lewis hasn’t had a similar champion on the School Board.    The Lee/Franconia member for the last decade or so was from Edison.  So is the new one. [/quote]

That's why the status quo now is flawed. Any school on a downward capacity trend or lower end of population will never again be able to compete against the huge 2800+ student schools. Year after year it'll be less and less likely that they will have a parent run for Board and represent their best interests, or they will be outnumbered in voice and survey results. Once the downward spiral begins the school can't recover without external intervention from an independent party.[/quote]

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