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[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]

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]

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.[/quote]

There was a student representative on the School Board from Lewis a few years ago, and she often used her allotted time to complain about the limited academic offerings at Lewis compared to other area schools. [/quote]

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