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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, it wouldn't matter if Lewis was AP or IB. Switch to AP, and parents will pupil place to an IB school -- probably Edison. Keep it IB, and parents will switch to the closest AP school -- probably Hayfield.

It doesn't matter.

And I don't think stopping transfers is enough to really make a different in the Lewis population size.

In the meantime, Lewis borders two schools that are over capacity (WSHS and Edison). The very simply solution would be to re-do boundaries for more equal student population sizes.[/quote]

And no one wants to move to Lewis. Did you watch the recent boundary meeting? No one wants to move to the school with a small cohort of college bound kids and the larger social issues that come with a high FARMs population. Call it what you will, people don't wnat to go there. Parents will fight it tooth and nail.

They could make Lewis and Mt Vernon into VoTech schools/ESOL schools that would provide career training and language training that would be helpful to the studetns at those schools. A strong VoTech school would probably draw in kids who are not interested in college, especially if they are able to earn certifications that would help them when they finish HS. They would still have the traditional HS classes, they could even offer AP classes but their would be a better set of electives and classes that meet the needs of a population that is currently attending the school. [/quote]

So concentrating poor and high-ESL kids at Lewis and some other FCPS high schools makes them no-go zones for many people? That seems to be what people express on this site (without specifically saying why). Can you see why people might want the border diligently locked down? Just one reason of many. [/quote]
DP. Just pointing out that there is a big difference between poor students being concentrated in particular areas versus FCPS concentrating them in a particular area. The latter implies a segregation intent, which doesn’t exist in modern day Fairfax. The school system does not go about trying to move poor students into schools together.[/quote]

They may not do that but they concentrate poverty by moving kids from higher income neighborhoods into wealthier schools. Repeatedly.  The effect is the same. [/quote]
I disagree with the premise. See, e.g., the McLean island moving to Langley. That’s the opposite of what you just claimed. And see they didn’t move timberlane island out of McLean because it would’ve reduced economic diversity at McLean. Two examples from the boundary review from January, yet people still baselessly gripe that the school board is trying to stick it to the poor.[/quote]

Daventry from Lewis to West Springfield.

Wakefield Forest from Annandale to Woodson.

Colvin Run island from McLean to Langley.

Wolftrap from Marshall to Madison.

Etc.

Lots more examples of them concentrating poverty than trying to accomplish the opposite. [/quote]
I count one of your examples in support - just daventry. The other moves are between equal caliber schools. You think the school board is concentrating poverty at McLean? Be serious.[/quote]

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