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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the big point is that the county really does need to do some sort of mass redistricting we have schools that are bursting at the seams we have schools with hundreds of anti-seats it's just not efficient use of resources to be wasting the space[/quote]

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that overcrowding and under-enrollment is measured against the current "program capacity," which is lower than the "design capacity" and often reflects space that has been configured for lower-density activity and could, in many cases, be reconfigured. [/quote]

Yes and that's true in certain pyramids, but the Woodson and West Potomac and Stuart issue is that they are overcrowded beyond design capacity. And Lee, Mount Vernon, Annandale, and Hayfield are way, way below. [/quote]

West Potomac is seriously overcrowded and Mount Vernon substantially under-enrolled.  It's an easy fix if people get around to it.  Historically, the Mount Vernon district representative on the School Board didn't want to take this up.  Perhaps Karen Corbett-Sanders (the School Board member first elected in 2015) has a different attitude.

Woodson isn't seriously over-capacity right now; it's just sad that it's overcrowded at all when it's partially a result of FCPS's bone-headed decision over the years to pull so many single-family neighborhoods out of AHS.

Stuart is starting to get seriously over-crowded, but there's no easy fix (as with West Potomac and Mount Vernon) that would not involve changing the boundaries at a bunch of schools, either to the north or to the south.  
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Karen Corbett Sanders does not seem interested in redistricting, although it's desperately needed. She doesn't want to rock the boat politically, but she needs to remember that many of her constituents are very unhappy with the status quo. Lee and Mount Vernon are underperforming because concerned parents won't send their kids there. Test scores are abysmal when compared to neighboring schools. Until boundaries get redrawn, the situation at those underperforming schools won't improve. [/quote]

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