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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it that none of the elementary schools that feed into West Springfield are Title 1, whereas all but one (the AAP center) of the elementary schools that feed into Lee High School are Title 1?  If that's not discriminatory, I don't know what is.[/quote]

Both the Lee and West Springfield boundaries are relatively compact, and on their face they don't look obviously gerrymandered to create an affluent school and a poor school. But Lee is near the older part of Springfield, with lots of garden apartments and small homes built in the 1950s, whereas most of the housing in the West Springfield district was built later and commands a higher price. You could swap some of the WS and Lee feeders to promote greater SES balance, but you'd have checker-board attendance areas and students with longer trips to school.[/quote]

Totally disagree.  Just look at the Saratoga area.  It has been totally gerrymandered.  It is part of the Lee HS pyramid, the Mount Vernon supervisor/school board district, and in a different Congressional district that those directly across Pohick Creek.  Both West Springfield and South County are closer than Lee HS, not to mention that kids in that neighborhood have to cross two parkways and an interstate to reach the MS and HS they're zoned for.  What's happened in Saratoga is the middle class and affluent families that live there use private school or pupil place to other schools and, as a result, even Saratoga ES has suffered.  Perfect example of a neighborhood that is relatively middle class and affluent, but for which the the politicians have gerrymandered into districts that don't benefit them - what happens? The middle class flees. [/quote]

Saratoga should go to South County.

The growth of Saratoga is fairly recent, and that is why they have weird boundaries. Sangster is in the same boat.  It has some of the strangest spidery boundaries of any of tye elementaries in the district, but it has tue good fortune of being split between WSHS and LBSS.  If you look at the Sangster boundaries, they are almost all of the newer neighborhoods in West Springfield. Saratoga has a lot of newer developments too.

But really, it should feed to Soutu County. Geographically, that school makes much more sense than Lee or WSHS.[/quote]

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