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[quote=Anonymous]I am a former FCPS teacher and used to have a few friends who taught at Lewis (then Lee).  I even applied for a job there once myself.  It was a few years ago, but it wasn't the students that were the real problem.  I mean sure, low income populations have their issues, but I didn't know anyone who was worried about getting stabbed or anything like that.  However, those issues do make teaching there more difficult, and the administration was absolutely awful at that time (he's gone, thank goodness), so the culture of the school was just really stressful and all around miserable.  The poor admin was what really brought the school down, and it's the reason I didn't take that job - the principal was not only inept, but also very unprofessional on many levels, especially to women.  Hopefully the current admin is better, but it takes a long time to undo a reputation like that, to get better teachers in there and change the school culture.  So I think its bad reputation comes not only from the population and the academic challenges of that, but also from a history of neglect and incompetence on the part of the administration that was assigned to that school.  [/quote]

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