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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with Lewis not being able to field a softball team is just one minor example of how students are victims of failed School Board policies. The ACLU should examine how policies like redistricting and [b]expansion of “better” schools (WSHS, West Po)[/b] have negatively impacted education for many students at schools like Lewis and Mount Vernon. Students at those schools don’t have the same access to courses or extracurricular activities. [/quote]

I agree with those expansions. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix (rezone) it; build upon, literally, what already works. [/quote]

A-holes like you (and Jeff Platenberg, the slimeball who used to head Facilities and made sure West Springfield got a huge expansion while seats at Lewis went unfilled and the school cratered) are responsible for the gaping disparities within FCPS.  [/quote]

You can’t force parents to send their kid to a particular school, particularly a failing one. I think rezoning schools should be extremely rare and an absolute last resort. It’s better to have high-performing “mega schools” (3k+ kids in one building) than to try to shuffle kids around.[/quote]

It’s a great way to magnify disparities among schools - perhaps the only thing at which this incompetent, preening, hypocritical SB excels. No one can say with a straight face that the kids who have no choice but to attend Annandale, Lewis, or Mount Vernon have equal opportunities as the kids at West Springfield and West Potomac.

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Just like no one can say with a straight face that kids at West Potomac have the same opportunities as kids at Chantilly or McLean. [/quote]

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