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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the Lewis parent- very glad your child is thriving there.  I have good friends whose child experienced a lot of bullying at Key but is also doing well at Lewis.

I know you can only definitively speak for yourself but why do you think the 200 or 300 kids zoned for Lewis transfer out? What are they missing about Lewis that you're seeing present there?[/quote]

Lewis parent here. I think the primary reason people transfer out is because they don't visit the school, they don't meet the teachers and administration, they don't talk to the people who go to the school. They transfer away before they give the school a chance.

And I get it. On paper, Lewis looks scary. People see the average SAT scores and think, "My kid is going to get that score." Or they worry that the high number of ESOL students will hinder their child's ability to learn.

I will say that we stepped into Lewis with hesitation because we thought the same thing. We had two back-up plans for how to transfer our child out if things didn't work out the first year. But we'd also come from a much higher-ranking school in FCPS that wasn't a fantastic experience, and we've had good experiences in lower-ranking elementary school, so we also knew that scores weren't everything. So we decided to try Lewis out.

That's the big thing -- people need to be willing to try the school out in the first place.

I think, also, a lot depends on what you want for your kid. You'll get excellent, devoted teachers who really care, but also, your child won't be getting any state championships for sports (except perhaps in soccer). Your child can walk on pretty much any sports team, can play a bigger part in the drama program, can be a leader in the music program and have fun doing all of it. You'll work side-by-side with parents who speak Spanish or other languages, but language aside, you'll both be out there supporting your kids.

It takes someone stepping through the doors of the school and learning all that. That first step can be hard and scary, but as we found, it can pay off.

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