Where should the county move the Kent Gardens kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Start another French immersion program somewhere
else. Perhaps get rid of Japanese immersion at GF and make it french.

GF likes its Japanese immersion program just fine, then you.

Add a second French immersion somewhere else if there’s that much demand.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t the very obvious answer to move the French immersion program elsewhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the very obvious answer to move the French immersion program elsewhere?

Hardly. The program is very successful and the KG area also has the most native French speakers of anywhere in the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Start another French immersion program somewhere
else. Perhaps get rid of Japanese immersion at GF and make it french.

Why would they do that? It's an incredibly well-respected program that draws many families to the area. It's not going anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Poster with good suggestions on rezoning (I brought a map and provided these same ones earlier this year), don’t forget moving the island south of Kirby to haycock. It’s idiotic as they are zoned to cross a major road to attend kges. Haycock is closer and on the same block.

Now if we can get the pta to stop being crazy with their grandfather forever BS. All the kids deserve to be in uncrowded schools - even the kids that have parents that don’t want to be rezoned to the equally great surrounding schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should also get rid of immersion, move that to a lower ses school that has capacity. Too many people are using it as a reason to attend a McLean school when they are zoned for a bad school

Most immersion kids come from other elementary schools in the Langley, McLean, and Marshall pyramids. They are there for the immersion program, not to avoid a “bad school.”

You could move the French program to a low SES school and then the program would just die or get turned into yet another Spanish immersion program in a few years.

Many are zoned for bad school like timberland and Westgate and use it as a way to avoid attending those and Marshall zones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poster with good suggestions on rezoning (I brought a map and provided these same ones earlier this year), don’t forget moving the island south of Kirby to haycock. It’s idiotic as they are zoned to cross a major road to attend kges. Haycock is closer and on the same block.

Now if we can get the pta to stop being crazy with their grandfather forever BS. All the kids deserve to be in uncrowded schools - even the kids that have parents that don’t want to be rezoned to the equally great surrounding schools.

Historically only 6th graders were grandfathered with ES boundary changes. They should revert to this policy - the kids will still end up at Longfellow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should also get rid of immersion, move that to a lower ses school that has capacity. Too many people are using it as a reason to attend a McLean school when they are zoned for a bad school

Most immersion kids come from other elementary schools in the Langley, McLean, and Marshall pyramids. They are there for the immersion program, not to avoid a “bad school.”

You could move the French program to a low SES school and then the program would just die or get turned into yet another Spanish immersion program in a few years.

Many are zoned for bad school like timberland and Westgate and use it as a way to avoid attending those and Marshall zones

I will check the numbers but don’t think this has a lot to do with the overcrowding at KG. The two main causes have been tear downs in the KG district (lots of older people selling their houses, which get torn down and replaced by big houses purchased by people w/kids) and the AAP changes (adding AAP to Cooper and LLIV to KG incentivized people zoned for KG to keep their AAP kids at KG rather than send them to Churchill Road).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the very obvious answer to move the French immersion program elsewhere?

+1

[Anonymous]

Haycock doesn’t have much space and a look at all the tear downs in the neighborhood tells you that more crowding is coming. Kids shouldn’t be added there.

[Anonymous]

There is space at FS and we would welcome some KG students. And as noted this could be done simultaneously with moving the very small Langley part of FS to Churchill Road, which I think they’d favor. It would reduce the overcrowding at KG and align the pyramids at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should also get rid of immersion, move that to a lower ses school that has capacity. Too many people are using it as a reason to attend a McLean school when they are zoned for a bad school

Most immersion kids come from other elementary schools in the Langley, McLean, and Marshall pyramids. They are there for the immersion program, not to avoid a “bad school.”

You could move the French program to a low SES school and then the program would just die or get turned into yet another Spanish immersion program in a few years.

Well, are there any "good schools" left in FCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should also get rid of immersion, move that to a lower ses school that has capacity. Too many people are using it as a reason to attend a McLean school when they are zoned for a bad school

Most immersion kids come from other elementary schools in the Langley, McLean, and Marshall pyramids. They are there for the immersion program, not to avoid a “bad school.”

You could move the French program to a low SES school and then the program would just die or get turned into yet another Spanish immersion program in a few years.

Well, are there any "good schools" left in FCPS?

Most people are happy with their schools even if they aren’t happy with the leadership at the Gatehouse/SB level.

PP suggested there were a lot of kids placing to KG from Westgate and Timber Lane because they are “bad schools.” In fact, only a small number of students transfer to KG from any single school, and people are generally happy with both Westgate and Timber Lane. More kids place into the French immersion program from Spring Hill, Chesterbrook, Haycock, and Shrevewood than from Timber Lane.

[Anonymous]

I think all immersion programs should be eliminated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think all immersion programs should be eliminated.

I think all IB programs should be eliminated, but that’s not going to happen, either.