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[quote=Anonymous][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]

The only advantages that kids at Chantilly or McLean have over kids at West Potomac relate to family resources, not FCPS resources. We are talking here about how people like Platenberg and his cronies on the SB systematically favored schools like West Springfield and West Potomac over schools like Lewis and Mount Vernon when it came to FCPS decisions. [/quote]

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