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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the county continues its misguided effort to focus the bulk of FARMS/ESOL resources in a handful of schools, those schools will become defacto ghettos as higher-income families flee. That's what is happening now with the lower-performing schools. Boundaries need to be adjusted to   bring in higher SES students. Also, offer challenging college-prep courses to make the schools attractive. Scrap the IB program except for 1 or 2 schools county-wide.[/quote]

Then lobby the School Board to move part of Woodson to Annandale, part of West Springfield to Lee, and part of West Potomac to Mount Vernon, and to get rid of IB at each of Annandale, Lee and Mount Vernon.  You can't blame people for wanting to avoid IB when it's a niche program that only appeals to a small percentage of students.   [/quote]

There is no reason to move any of West Springfield oer to Lee. It just makes zero sense.

West springfield has the most logical boundaries in all of Fairfax County. It does not have capacity problems and will actually be under capacity when renovations are complete.it is not the wealthiest zone by any stretch of imagination, just solidly middle/upper middle class. It has done an exceptional job educating all of its students, with some of the highest black and hispanic achievement in the county and state. It is not a large or oversized school like LB, Robinson or many of the other schools.

The only reason to rezone WSHS is to try to socially engineer things and to appease Lee parents. Moving a neighborhood from WSHS to Lee will do nothing to raise achievement at Lee. The only thing it would achieve would be to drive down property values i  whatever neighborhood got rezoned to Lee.[/quote]

And to answer OPs question, I don't see what is wrong with attending [b]Hayfield[/b]. It seems like a solid choice if it fits your budget and commute. With tye recent development in retail, etc, I bet that high school will continue to improve and that area will be very in demand in the next decade.

I have also heard good things about West Potomac.[/quote]

Love the area, but why are Hayfield's AP pass rates so crappy compared to other schools?  I can't understand why only 25% of the kids taking AP Calc AB can/want to pass the exam.  Only 30% passed the AP calc exam.  West Po (72% for chem).  Statistics 47% Hay, 87% WestPo.  World Hist 54% Hay,  79% West Po.    I didn't include classes like Eng. Lang -- where the participation rate seems to indicate that it is a "try AP" class for kids who aren't really ready.  I want to see Hay do well, but I can never understand why the pass rates for AP are the lowest in the county (excluding the IB schools where kids take AP exams without taking the class).  Maybe the kids taking AP classes at West Po are the ones who really want to take them, and maybe the admin at Hay is trying to sweep in kids who don't really belong in AP level (i.e. Chris Matthews challenge philosophy).      ---- just looked at the racial data on AP participating -- clearly there are far more black kids (both raw #s and the percentages) taking AP at Hay than at West Po, and more white kids (both as a proportion and sheer numbers) at West Po than at Hay.

That may be part of the equation.  But, it doesn't necessarily explain low pass rates on classes that you would expect only the most motivated to take (i.e. AP Chem, Calc AB or Calc BC).  I don't know what the explanation is there.[/quote]

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