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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the Poster referencing Keene Mill - you do realize Keene Mill is right next to Irving - literally, and much closer to WSHS then some of the other neighborhoods. They also want to rezone neighborhoods further back in cardinal forest to Keene mill. Again these neighborhoods are way closer to irving than other neighborhoods so stop bringing up how Keene Mill is closer to Lewis. Its way more closer to Irving and WSHS. What the board needs to do is do the residency checks and be serious about them and have legal punishments for parents who submit false paperwork showing false addresses. Otherwise those of us who play by the rules will continue to play by the rules but those that dont and have no problem lying really dont seem to care that they lie and get away with it..[/quote]

Keene Mill could stay at Irving for middle school, then be a split feeder into Lewis.

The plan for Hunt Valley that you want implemented created a split feeder (while over crowding SoCo)

FCPS could just as easily turn Keene Mill into an Irving to Lewis split feeder, especially since it is the closest neighborhood to the "nearby under enrolled high school" that people zoned to the Lewis end of WSHS keep mentioning.  If people from the neighborhoods nearest to Lewis want to push moving an entire elementary school to Lewis or turning a neighborhood on the other side of the boundary into a split feeder to Lewis, then they need to realize that will push neighborhoods who so far have only been advocating for residency checks, eliminating transfers into WSHS and leaving the boundaries intact with no one moved in or out, towards advocating instead that since creating split feeders or rezoning entire schools to "the nearby under enrolled" Lewis is on the table, that the neighborhoods on OKM that are minutes from Lewis are the only reasonable option.

No one from Sangster, Hunt Valley or Shannon Station have mentioned this or want this to happen.

But plenty of people in those neighbirhoods nearest to Lewis on OKM have implied that Sangster, Shannon Station and Hunt Valley should take one for the team and accept getting rezoned, always mentioning the "under enrolled nearby high school" being "inequitable" in their arguments.

If filling Lewis is the goal and split feeders or entire elementary schools are on the table, then Keene Mill staying at Irving but splitting to Lewis is the one school rezoning that makes perfect sense.

The Keene Mill neighborhoods are actually equally as close to Lewis as WSHS.  It is 5 minutes from Lewis.  Making it a split feeder to Lewis makes sense, if FCPS wants to go that route.

If I were on that end of WSHS closest to Lewis, I would stop pushing for one of the schools from the other side of the boundary to get rezoned, and start joining them to fight for a full residency check at WSHS, at the minimum with the rising 9th grade class from Irving.

But if you keep pushing for the other neighborhoods to get rezoned, especially if you are arguing that they should pass by your elementary school and every other elementary school zoned for WSHS to go to Lewis, at some point people are going to point out the obvious, that if FCPS is moving neighborhoods to the "under enrolled nearby high school" and willing to create split feeders to do it, then it should definitely be the neighborhoods 5 minutes/2 miles from Lewis and a straight shot down Old Keene Mill Road.[/quote]

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