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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps a school closer to Lake Braddock could be moved to accommodate Saratoga? Or perhaps Saratoga should be moved to South County, which is also in the Mt. Vernon district- so that would make sense for voting representation.  I think Saratoga voters are trying to garner attention to the fact that the current system is broken. Saratoga doesn't really belong at Lee because Lee is not their "neighborhood" school, but it's up to FCPS to figure out who does. It's going to have a domino effect, but it needs to occur. A lot of issues were never resolved during the South County HS opening.
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Well, that won't happen. The Lake Braddock neighborhoods closer to Lee have a close association with the Burke area.

I don't see any compelling reason to move Saratoga out of Lee, and I would be extremely surprised to see any significant support on the School Board for doing so. Just because you've discovered you're zoned for a school with comparatively poor test scores doesn't mean the system is broken. [/quote]

No the PP, but I didn't "suddenly discover" anything.  I knew exactly what I was getting when I bought my home in Saratoga several years ago.  That doesn't change the fact that kids in the Saratoga neighborhood have to cross the FFX County Pkwy, the Franconia-Springfield Pkwy, and Interstate 95 to attend the MS and HS to which they're zoned when there are multiple MS and HS's closer to them or the fact that they neighborhood is represented by elected officials that do not represent the rest of the Lee HS pyramid (with the exception of State Delegate Vivian Watts, I believe).  Personally, I don't think Key and Lee are as bad as a lot of people make them out to be and I wouldn't be afraid to send my kids there in the least, but I wouldn't mind better representation of my neighborhood's interests than I currently have.   [/quote]

Drive time wise, it is not much different for them to go to Lee vs West Springfield. It is not as if there is a 30 minute difference in commute between the two.[/quote]

But these kids have to cross a major road!  On foot! In bare feet! Up hill in the snow!  I'm not in this part of the county, so maybe I'm just missing something. But I do have a kid crossing Fairfax county parkway for school, and don't see the issue. It sounds like Saratoga parents did the equivalent of buying the biggest house in the neighborhood and regret it?  That is, that Saratoga is the wealthiest neighborhood feeding to Lee?  I'm not sure why this warrants rezoning. They had to know at the time that they were buying into, well, Lee. So now, send your kids there or go private with the money you saved.  Why is this not the obvious answer?[/quote]

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