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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gatehouse insider here. Lee is projecting to be around ~1400 in a few years.

I also have an update about the IB East Center Middle (Key) and High (Lee). I have a few new facts confirmed and can tell you some unknowns.

1. The feeders will be the following pyramids: Edison, West Springfield, Hayfield, South County, Annandale, West Potomac, and Mount Vernon. IB would leave Mount Vernon, Edison and Annandale. So, it's going to be a large part of the eastern/southern part of the county.

2. Facilities is supposed to come up with a budget for the boundary study. There was a preliminary rough study.

[i]3. Politically, there is one SB who loves the idea because they do not like the amount of IB programs. One SB members hates this. And others are either indifferent or oppose it because they'd rather the county push funding the Western FX high school.[/i]

4. Even with the changes, Lee is tracking to run into accreditation issues due to its ESOL learners. They shouldn't have defunded that damn night school.

5. It's going to be a lottery like HB Woodlawn. Each pyramid will get a set amount of seats with a waitlist.

6. They are following a model that was used by a different district that consolidated its IB programs (after attempting to dispatch them to poor performing schools). The district who did this saw a 100 percent capacity demand and has a large wait-list for the program. It requires students from middle school to commit to the program/diploma and students who aren't on track have to return to their base schools. It is extremely popular.[/quote]

And this is why this is all a pipe dream.  Unless and until Lee loses accreditation, I wouldn’t get my hopes up for any significant change.  [/quote]

I will repeat myself. Lee is tracking to go under state oversight very, very quickly with the new testing requirements and the dumb decision to close the night school. The county is not sitting on its hands and waiting for this to happen. Actually work is being done, meetings are occurring and lobbying (pro and against) is happening. You can say it's not going to happen but don't be surprised if it does and it's done in a quick fashion. This is inside baseball.

Another point, the head of IB wants this and the super is agnostic because he won't publicly commit to any sort of change until he spends at least a year here.[/quote]

None of this deals with the actual problem which is non traditional, adult, ESOL students who should be at Bryant or some other alternative high school, instead of in a traditional high school.

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