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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What WSHS parents say at public meetings and what they suggest privately and on forums like this aren't necessarily the same thing.  You aren't fooling anyone.  [/quote]

Give it a rest. I’m a WSHS parent who spent the last two years of her life advocating on this and I didn’t even know what BMP was until this came up at one of the last boundary meetings but Ricardy shut it down. If you want to get mad at someone, get mad at the Lewis parents who keep trying to force kids into their school.

Maybe ask why the school board refuses to give up on IB there. It’s because tons of Lewis parents use it as a way to get escape that school. The SB doesn’t want to hear complaints from them if they close that IB loophole. [/quote]

You really are going to claim that WS parents haven't been saying that potential Edison overcrowding ought to get more attention from the School Board than the current overcrowding at West Springfield?

Sorry, but even when you didn't mention Bren Mar Park by name, you were suggesting Lewis should pick up kids from Edison rather than West Springfield.  [/quote]

Well to me yes that makes more sense. Edison has a lot of growth planned and wshs numbers are stable and will probably decline in a couple of years. If they establish residency at the high school level. That will take some more kids away. I am tired of everything being reactive and playing with our kids lives rather than actually planning for what is ahead. [/quote]

If you want to take that approach, shift gears, and be more proactive, the latest FCPS projections have West Springfield at 116% capacity in 2030-31 and Edison at 109% capacity.

There's simply no reason for picking on Bren Mar Park other than the fact that, as one poster (likely from WSHS) states, it is perceived as "lower-hanging fruit," meaning an easier target.  
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Oh, I thought FCPS numbers didn’t take developments into account when planning, so is the 109 with or without all the new developments (or just a few of them that already have ground broken)?

Either way, you are getting the PTA to organize and name planning areas from WSHS that should be moved. It is kind of evil because you clearly are going after specific groups.  Meanwhile, in WSHS we are consistently saying those numbers don’t take into account the numbers of out of area children and that we need residency checks to establish the real number of kids that should be attending WSHS. There is a big difference between the two. 
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I thought you were saying FCPS should be more pro-active.  Apparently you meant they should be clairvoyant, since we all know from experience that many "new developments" never come to fruition.

Either way, you're demonstrating the willingness of the West Springfield community to throw Bren Mar Park under a bus while offering every argument under the sun as to why FCPS should ignore the overcrowding at one of its most overcrowded high schools.

If this is the intellectual dishonesty on display, then clearly FCPS should not be moving anyone to Lewis at this point, because what they are pursuing now is nothing short of the victimization of a community that has already been redistricted in the not too distant past.  [/quote]

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