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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The person in charge of boundary changes comes from West Springfield. Go figure.[/quote]

To be fair, I live in West Springfield and it just isn't a very economically diverse section of the county. They did redistrict Daventry from Lee to WS. This is a townhome area, but high end town homes and these families go to elementary and middle school with kids that go to WSHS. So it really did make sense. They also geographically are closer to WSHS - to get to Lee, though the mileage isn't much more, you have to cross the mixing bowl area.

My point is that there isn't really a way to redistrict WSHS that would include more low income families without creating very odd boundaries. We don't have any multi-million dollar homes (see that previous post) but we also have few low income areas. It's a diverse area culturally, but not economically. [/quote]

There are two title I elementary schools like crest wood that could easily be moved over to west Springfield. They could move sangster to lake Braddock or another feeder since there is so much capacity there. But they won't. It's strange that the only schools on the west Springfield side of the mixing bowl that go to Lee are poor.

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I'd be on board with moving Crestwood and Garfield to West Springfield. My kids are still in elementary (rolling valley) and I don't have all the feeder schools figured out yet. So I'm not sure about the school numbers - is WSHS underenrolled compared to Lee (where Crestwood and Garfield go)? I don't know anyone who goes to Crestwood, but I know many people from Garfield (also a title 1 school). [/quote]

Lee and West Springfield are both underenrolled once you factor in the temporary capacity issues due to construction. WSHS was underenrolled before construction and will be underenrolled after construction.  Lee is slightly more underenrolled than WS.

Fcps is not going to move the Sangster kids away from LB (under capacity) and the handful of Sangster houses zoned for WS are the closest to LB and WS than any of the other Sangster homes. To rezone the WSHS Sangster families to South County woukd require fcps to take a tiny donut hole out of the very edge of Sangster's boundaries and they are notgoing to do something that makes so little sense.[/quote]

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