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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, it wouldn't matter if Lewis was AP or IB. Switch to AP, and parents will pupil place to an IB school -- probably Edison. Keep it IB, and parents will switch to the closest AP school -- probably Hayfield.

It doesn't matter.

And I don't think stopping transfers is enough to really make a different in the Lewis population size.

In the meantime, Lewis borders two schools that are over capacity (WSHS and Edison). The very simply solution would be to re-do boundaries for more equal student population sizes.[/quote]

And no one wants to move to Lewis. Did you watch the recent boundary meeting? No one wants to move to the school with a small cohort of college bound kids and the larger social issues that come with a high FARMs population. Call it what you will, people don't wnat to go there. Parents will fight it tooth and nail.

They could make Lewis and Mt Vernon into VoTech schools/ESOL schools that would provide career training and language training that would be helpful to the studetns at those schools. A strong VoTech school would probably draw in kids who are not interested in college, especially if they are able to earn certifications that would help them when they finish HS. They would still have the traditional HS classes, they could even offer AP classes but their would be a better set of electives and classes that meet the needs of a population that is currently attending the school. [/quote]

So concentrating poor and high-ESL kids at Lewis and some other FCPS high schools makes them no-go zones for many people? That seems to be what people express on this site (without specifically saying why). Can you see why people might want the border diligently locked down? Just one reason of many. [/quote]

Generational poverty is very real in the US. There are plenty of poor kids in FCPS who are citizens and plenty who are hear legally. The numbers don't drop that much if you can magically make all of the undocumented kids disappear.

Poverty is concentrated in those schools because those are the areas that you can more easily find less expensive living situations. MC and UMC families are not going to live in those properties so you will swap out one poor group for another poor group. And the societal issues that come from poverty don't change that much based on your legal status in the country. [/quote]

The poverty in Springfield is certainly NOT generational poverty. Unless you count importing generations of poverty from overseas. [/quote]

Cannot speak for Springfield, but the same could be true of Herndon.  Twenty or so years ago, it was not considered impoverished.  In fact, I think it was rated higher than Chantilly.
The reason Great Falls was sent to Langley was because of overcrowding in Herndon.

You could take Fairfax county as a whole and see this.  Thirty years ago, the schools did not have so many impoverished students.  Ask yourself what changed?  Clue:  it is not the "generational poverty."[/quote]

They could have expanded Herndon in the 90s and kept western Great Falls there.  The lines typically have been drawn and redrawn to concentrate wealth at Langley. That may change now that they are moving apartments and condos in Tysons there, which will likely bump part of Langley back to now-expanded Herndon in a few years. [/quote]

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