Spanish Immersion Community Table Session

[Anonymous]

my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

It won’t be “even more” because they can just adjust planning units at the boundaries rather dropping 200 students at Kenmore and letting it domino out from there.

I doubt more than 200 students total have to be moved.

And can we increase HBW enrollment already? Every other school will be “over capacity” — they can sit at 108% like the rest of us.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capacity-Utilization-2021-to-2023-for-posting-online.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

It won’t be “even more” because they can just adjust planning units at the boundaries rather dropping 200 students at Kenmore and letting it domino out from there.

I doubt more than 200 students total have to be moved.

And can we increase HBW enrollment already? Every other school will be “over capacity” — they can sit at 108% like the rest of us.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capacity-Utilization-2021-to-2023-for-posting-online.pdf

According to the APS report, 1,900 K-8 students will live in planning units with new boundaries if the immersion program is moved. If immersion is not moved, that increases to 3,200.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

It won’t be “even more” because they can just adjust planning units at the boundaries rather dropping 200 students at Kenmore and letting it domino out from there.

I doubt more than 200 students total have to be moved.

And can we increase HBW enrollment already? Every other school will be “over capacity” — they can sit at 108% like the rest of us.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capacity-Utilization-2021-to-2023-for-posting-online.pdf

Why on earth is Key at 155% of capacity and the most overcrowded elementary school in APS? It is an option school so APS could easily lower enrollment by making fewer seats available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

It won’t be “even more” because they can just adjust planning units at the boundaries rather dropping 200 students at Kenmore and letting it domino out from there.

I doubt more than 200 students total have to be moved.

And can we increase HBW enrollment already? Every other school will be “over capacity” — they can sit at 108% like the rest of us.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capacity-Utilization-2021-to-2023-for-posting-online.pdf

They can’t just make a few adjustments. If the boundaries don’t changw, by 2027 Williamsburg will be at 65% capacity and Gunston will be at 112%. You can’t just move Gunston students to Williamsburg, so the dominos move throughout Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

It won’t be “even more” because they can just adjust planning units at the boundaries rather dropping 200 students at Kenmore and letting it domino out from there.

I doubt more than 200 students total have to be moved.

And can we increase HBW enrollment already? Every other school will be “over capacity” — they can sit at 108% like the rest of us.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capacity-Utilization-2021-to-2023-for-posting-online.pdf

According to the APS report, 1,900 K-8 students will live in planning units with new boundaries if the immersion program is moved. If immersion is not moved, that increases to 3,200.

Why would moving middle school immersion impact K-5?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:interesting debate but am I correct that nobody knows what the actual development is?

Correct.. or no one is saying is they do know

Can someone post a recap for those who weren’t able to watch?

no recap because they canceled the meeting at the last minute. which is pretty weird

I’ve heard enrollment in WMS was way up this year, something about people leaving private school.

My kid says there are a ton of new kids and three out of four they have talked to came from Gunston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

It won’t be “even more” because they can just adjust planning units at the boundaries rather dropping 200 students at Kenmore and letting it domino out from there.

I doubt more than 200 students total have to be moved.

And can we increase HBW enrollment already? Every other school will be “over capacity” — they can sit at 108% like the rest of us.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capacity-Utilization-2021-to-2023-for-posting-online.pdf

Why on earth is Key at 155% of capacity and the most overcrowded elementary school in APS? It is an option school so APS could easily lower enrollment by making fewer seats available.

Because they were just moved to a smaller building (around 2021) and have pushed back on shrinking the program to make it fit in the building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

It won’t be “even more” because they can just adjust planning units at the boundaries rather dropping 200 students at Kenmore and letting it domino out from there.

I doubt more than 200 students total have to be moved.

And can we increase HBW enrollment already? Every other school will be “over capacity” — they can sit at 108% like the rest of us.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capacity-Utilization-2021-to-2023-for-posting-online.pdf

Why on earth is Key at 155% of capacity and the most overcrowded elementary school in APS? It is an option school so APS could easily lower enrollment by making fewer seats available.

Because they were just moved to a smaller building (around 2021) and have pushed back on shrinking the program to make it fit in the building.

APS moved Key to a building that was too small for it?!? No wonder people fear APS is trying to undermine the immersion program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

It won’t be “even more” because they can just adjust planning units at the boundaries rather dropping 200 students at Kenmore and letting it domino out from there.

I doubt more than 200 students total have to be moved.

And can we increase HBW enrollment already? Every other school will be “over capacity” — they can sit at 108% like the rest of us.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capacity-Utilization-2021-to-2023-for-posting-online.pdf

According to the APS report, 1,900 K-8 students will live in planning units with new boundaries if the immersion program is moved. If immersion is not moved, that increases to 3,200.

Why would moving middle school immersion impact K-5?

I wondered that too. PP's numbers are meaningless.

[Anonymous]

These capacity numbers don't make sense to me. We're at Claremont, which reduced the incoming classes from 6 kindergarten classes to 4 starting last year (class entering in 2022), to deal with capacity issues -- yet these projections show no meaningful decline (unless I'm looking at this incorrectly).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

It won’t be “even more” because they can just adjust planning units at the boundaries rather dropping 200 students at Kenmore and letting it domino out from there.

I doubt more than 200 students total have to be moved.

And can we increase HBW enrollment already? Every other school will be “over capacity” — they can sit at 108% like the rest of us.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capacity-Utilization-2021-to-2023-for-posting-online.pdf

Why on earth is Key at 155% of capacity and the most overcrowded elementary school in APS? It is an option school so APS could easily lower enrollment by making fewer seats available.

Because they were just moved to a smaller building (around 2021) and have pushed back on shrinking the program to make it fit in the building.

APS moved Key to a building that was too small for it?!? No wonder people fear APS is trying to undermine the immersion program.

Key went from 6 to 4 k classes when it moved. This year only 6/8 trailer classrooms are being used (they were all used last year).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion

Getting everyone mad and then “pausing” the process is an APS classic move, so you’re probably correct.

If they don’t move immersion, they’ll need to relocate even more middle school students. regardless of the immersion plan, there is no way to avoid moving kids from south to north. that is just the population trend

It won’t be “even more” because they can just adjust planning units at the boundaries rather dropping 200 students at Kenmore and letting it domino out from there.

I doubt more than 200 students total have to be moved.

And can we increase HBW enrollment already? Every other school will be “over capacity” — they can sit at 108% like the rest of us.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Capacity-Utilization-2021-to-2023-for-posting-online.pdf

Where are you gonna put the trailers? In the middle of Wilson Blvd? Y'all should have thought of that before you insisted HB had to move to the tiny plot of land in Rosslyn where there isn't room for trailers.