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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No county-wide study that leaves Langley untouched and does nothing for Lewis is truly “comprehensive.” Michelle Reid is an idiot who completely oversold what this study was about.  They should cancel it and only deal with the few elementary schools that are truly overcrowded. Anything else is unnecessarily messing with boundaries and families to justify the money getting paid to the consultant. [/quote]

Lewis has over 1600 students according to the school membership on the dashboard.

Around 250 +/-Lewis kids transfer to other schools each year.

FCPS could bring Lewis up to at least 1800 students very easily and cheaply, by getting rid of IB,switching to AP, and adding AAP to Key middle school so the AAP kids don't try to switch to other high schools.

It would be a quick, immediate solution that improved Lewis academucs, brought Lewis to almost full capacity, and avoids the disruption of rezoning.[/quote]

They have no such plan nor are they taking other measures to add kids to Lewis.  Lewis will continues to decline but Reid and Frisch will pay themselves on the back for changing the boundaries at other schools. [/quote]

Coming from a neighborhood where kids were moved to stabilize another school, it is a crappy reason to move other kids. Kids now look for reasons transfer to schools that are stronger, to include the school they had been at, because there are not to same opportunities at the new base school as there was at the old school. It sucks that we are looking to transfer our kid for HS because his current school has not had enough kids to offer the advanced science and math classes that we know he will enjoy. We can either suck it up and let him attend a school with his friends with classes that are not likely to challenge him or transfer to another school where he will be challenged but away from his friends. He will know kids at the school, but it is not the same.

The scores at the school have improved, it looks much better than it did before. It would look even better if the hundreds of kids who transfer out stayed but they have no incentive to do so. Most of the families with kids who take a smattering of honors and higher-level classes are fine at the school. The kids who want a heavier course load and more advanced STEM options all leave.

Moving kids would improve Lewis's scores but do little for the kids who are struggling. They are not more likely to take AP/IB classes. The are not less likely to ditch class. They are not more likely to complete their school work. The fact that there are more kids taking AP/IB classes has zero impact on them. Test scores go up because you have higher scoring kids averaging out the lower scores of the kids who don't care. The drop out percentage will drop because there are more kids who will stay in school. The n umbers will look better but not much will actually improve for the kids who are struggling, failing, and dropping out.

Moving kids to make a school looks better doesn't help anything and only hurts the kids who are moved. You still lose the high achievers because they find a way to move to a school with better class offerings and opportunities. The middle range of kids will stay and do fine. That is about it.

Move kids to fix over crowding but move them in a way that makes sense, so move them to schools that are closer to them. If that means kids from WSHS move to South County, then so be it. Forcing a path to Lewis to try and put a band aid on the larger, societal problems that cause the educational issues at Lewis is not fair to the students.

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