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[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]

The message that it sent was this it was more important for the 2019-23 School Board to humor Karen Keys Gamarra, who wanted to burnish her civil rights credentials by having Lee renamed Lewis and starting a social justice program than to enhance the STEM and other academic offerings at Lewis.

If you go to Lewis and sign up for this program, you may get a free field trip to the Capitol, courtesy of FCPS taxpayers, but not a strong academic program.   [/quote]

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