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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]True, Lee HS is not in Karen Corbett Sanders' district, but one elementary school in her Mount Vernon district (Saratoga) is part of the Lee HS pyramid. It's one glaring example of why district boundaries should be redrawn. Saratoga parents don't get to vote for the Lee District rep. even though their kids go to Lee HS. Saratoga lacks fair representation on the school board.[/quote]

I imagine a few other elementary schools in the West Springfield pyramid will likely be joining Saratoga at Lee in the future. I think that may lead to the change in boundaries in terms of representatives.[/quote]

[b]There's no reason why Lee should have all Title I, high FARMS feeder schools (except for the Springfield Estates AAP center) and West Springfield have none.[/b] Major inequity there.

Saratoga, which is on the very far edge of the Lee HS boundary is propping up Lee HS. The school board doesn't want to let Saratoga into another district that makes better geographic sense for them because it would make Lee HS even worse. [/quote]

Springfield Estates is Title I too (the part that is not the AAP center is primarily ESOL and FARMS and the fcps administration recently designated it as Title I so that the kids who are in the zone and not AAP are not unintentionally denied Title I funds just b/c the AAP center is housed in that school.)  Most of the AAP kids are coming from other pyramids (Hayfield and Edison).  Those  base kids (at SEES) end up being the best of the class at Lee.  I believe every single one who graduated at Lee last year (having come from SEES) was going on to college.  But, I agree with your premise that a HS should not have the deck stacked against it by having all (or mostly) FARMS/ESOL feeder schools.[/quote]

They can make adjustments, but FCPS isn't a self-contained system. If they just start busing people out of their communities to balance HS demographics, people will move to Arlington or Loudoun or send their kids to privates, and the net effect won't be what you're hoping for (unless your goal is 24 Lee HS and one TJ).[/quote]

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