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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After watching the meeting on YouTube, there is a familiar dynamic at work.

White, seemingly-UMC women zoned to Herndon stood up to advocate for more boundary changes based on equity. They were the women who stood up and clamored that the school board didn’t go big enough. Meanwhile, a POC mom from the area stood up to argue that they shouldn’t move Coates kids to Herndon Elementary, even though the school has capacity.

It’s just a really stark reminder that the people pushing for the larger boundary moves are often at odds with POC in those very communities.

As Marcia St. John Cunning mentioned the other night at the school board meeting, her area told her that they don’t want people at their school if they don’t want to be there.

There is a fundamental disconnect between the UMC whites in these areas, and the people who they claim to be trying to “help” with larger boundary changes.[/quote]

Speaking directly about Marcia St John Cunning and Lewis - many Lewis pyramid parents spoke during the meeting about feeling the inequity at Lewis. One parent mentioned that fewer students at the school means less opportunities and named specific examples about classes and clubs being cancelled as a direct result of low enrollment. Something that changing boundaries to add more students to the school could directly resolve. 
And I don’t see how being a POC matters for that statement, but yes we are a POC family and I fully agree with the Lewis parents 
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I’m a WSHS parent and here is where the board went sideways with the Lewis/WSHS thing.  They didn’t allow for grandfathering from the get go and STILL aren’t promising transportation.  I have a current freshman and a 6th grader.  I am EXTREMELY opposed to moving kids in the middle of high school to a new high school. Particularly one which won’t offer the same AP courses when my kid would not be able to start IB in the middle of their high school.  So I fought and fought the process.
Now, if my 6th grader who hasn’t started middle school with the crew she would go to high school with were to switch pyramids next year and start 7th  at  Key/Lewis, that is fine with me. Or even if they move kids when they start high school, again, I wouldn’t have fought so much.

Dr. Anderson stood up for this at the 8130 board meeting and she was dead on.  
But they didn’t do this. At all. [/quote]

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