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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The FCPS school board needs to evaluate school boundaries on an established schedule to ensure that boundaries don't become entrenched. Areas change, new housing and roads are built, and demographic shifts occur. Over time, boundaries that once made sense no longer do. I can think of a great example in Springfield.[/quote]

I'm not quite sure I understand this. FCPS devotes a lot of attention to monitoring enrollments and studying the need for potential boundary changes.  What is wrong with "entrenched" boundaries as long as appropriate use is made of each school's capacity?  I suppose they could just periodically change the boundaries to shake things up, but boundary changes, when proposed, typically provoke more outcry than just about anything besides the family life

education policy.[/quote]

The Board mainly looks at capacity when considering boundary changes, but that policy is all wrong and not a good use of $ resources. Why is the county spending big bucks to renovate and add capacity at West Springfield when Lee has excess capacity? More higher income areas need to be zoned for Lee or the few higher SES families that are zoned for that school will leave - making a bad situation even worse.[/quote]

I don't disagree with that, although some families now zoned for WS would either pupil-place back to WS for AP or go private if redistricted to Lee.  If you want to shore up Lee, you have to make it harder to transfer out. [/quote]

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