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[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]

If you look at attendance numbers and capacity from the Mt. Vernon area west toward Lake Braddock, I think it would be possible to consolidate and eliminate one school entirely. WSHS will be under capacity after renovation, Lee and Mt. Vernon are way under. I'm not sure about Edison, Hatfield, or Stuart. FCPS needs a comprehensive boundary study.[/quote]

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