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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m halfway through the YouTube video of last night’s meeting.

I’m often critical of the school board on these forums, but, I’ll give praise where it is due - several board members now seem focused on increasing enrollment for under enrolled schools through programming decisions and transfers. That’s welcome news.

I personally would rather see them just address it with programming, but a look at transfers should come before further boundary changes, if programming decisions don’t fix the issue. Further boundary changes should be a last resort after these two approaches have been exhausted.

Anyway, hopefully this is a sea change in how they approach capacity issues in the future.[/quote]

I have not listened yet.  However, they need to be realistic in their programming.

For example, when they renamed Lee to Lewis and chose to put in a social justice program that was thinly veiled as a "leadership program" , did anyone consider that this was sending a "message" about the school?[/quote]
Transfers were specifically mentioned as a potential solution to Lewis. I would rather they just look at programming, but at least they are going to look at something other than disastrous and unwanted boundary moves.[/quote]

What does that even mean?  It would be one thing if they just stepped up and said we need to get rid of IB at Lewis and have a full set of AP courses.  Saying they will look at transfers is sort of meaningless.  You can’t have one set of transfer requirements to transfer out of Lewis and another set to pupil place out of Chantilly. [/quote]

Oh but they’re going to have a meeting with Lewis families and reps later this month to talk about it and get feedback. I’m sure that won’t be a waste of time. The Lewis families have been very active and vocal on what they want. They deserve better than what’s happened in this process. [/quote]
I support the Lewis meeting to figure out a solution, not moving boundaries as a band aid. As Sandy said yesterday, it’s clear that WSHS families aren’t interested in moving to Lewis, so they need to approach any concerns about capacity in a realistic way. That’s programming.

Good for FCPS for realizing this.[/quote]

Putting a finer point on this.  People don't want to move out of their WS schools period.  It's not just folks not wanting to Lewis. [/quote]
Yep. Looking back, I can see my comment was a like ambiguous.

Wshs families do not want to move. It’s time for the school board to come up with a realistic solution that does not involve further boundary changes.[/quote]

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