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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

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]

I am a parent of a Lewis student now (as opposed to a few years ago), and my experience has been the education has been excellent. The teachers are passionate and dedicated to their job. The school had a great community, and it’s probably as close as you can come to a small-town-school feel in FCPS. [/quote]

I'm sure nothing makes for a small-town feel quite like being the high school that serves the areas closest to the intersection of the Capital Beltway and the biggest highway on the entire East Coast, but please go on. [/quote]

Quite, quite.  If a community has a road with too many lanes or speeds over 50, it is automatically unable to have caring citizens.  So says King PP and so it must be.  [/quote]+1000

And all the public intoxication charges; indecent exposure charges; domestic violence calls; kidnappings; human, drug and weapons trafficking; rapes; manslaughters; and murders that happen in an area with that type of population.[/quote]

Oh FFS. It’s Springfield. We don’t have tons of manslaughters and murders. There’s petty crime and garden variety stuff most of the time. Cut it out. [/quote]

I’m looking at it this way.  That poster said +1,000 when I called him King PP. ;)  He isn’t all there. [/quote]

DP.  Are we really supposed to pretend a run-down part of the county with so much crime is Mayberry?  There are reasons that Reid ended up not touching Lewis. No one wanted to be moved there, just like next to no one pupil places there now.  [/quote]

Have you ever been in that area?

The houses immediately surrounding Lewis are modest and older, but they are well taken care of with nice yards and full of working class families.  There are many nice upper middle class neighborhoods that feed into Lewis, especially along the parkway, with large, new homes.  The area is safe and clean, with a wide variety of homes.  The apartments over by the library show community pride; they had a great Christmas light display on all their balconies.  That area might be much poorer than much of Fairfax County, but they they take care of their homes and neighborhoods.[/quote]

Exactly. We're in West Springfield and I don't want my kid to go that school because driving over there every day would be a nightmare, but we certainly shop over there on weekends and to go Mike's Great American or the Whole Foods or Total Wine etc. Crime is worse over in Mount Vernon off Route 1. People need to stop bashing Lewis. It's not okay.[/quote]

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