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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bet they delay it for another year or two. People in pretty much every middle school were furious about having to move, and that eventually is inevitable. But it's easier to just kick the can for a few years. [/quote]
I haven't heard that much furor.  The loudest are a few Taylor parents who don't think their kids should have to move to WMS, but that will likely be ignored as ridiculous.   And two Ashlawn PUs that don't want to be carved off the rest of the elementary school, but I think that can pretty easily be fixed. No one else has posted a significant number of comments.  [/quote]

I agree with this.  It's really not that big of a deal.  The Hamm people are just nuts.[/quote]

What are they doing that is nuts?[/quote]

Suggesting that the County's middle school immersion program should move to the opposite corner of the Couty from its current location and bulk of current students.  Oh also that part of the County has extremely limited native spanish speakers nearby pretty much ensuring the program will ultimately fail.  Behaving as if the option schools should just take whatever crumbs are left and like it and they have no right to complain or advocate as neighborhood schools are the priority.  I don't even have kids in an option school and most of the arguments are both ignorant and entitled.[/quote]

I’m pretty sure it’s Kenmore parents advocating for immersion to be moved somewhere besides their school. They are (understandably) opposed to losing their neighborhood seats.[/quote]
Nah, read the beginning of this thread.  It is mostly Taylor parents.  Kenmore parents wouldn't be fixated on WMS, as the Immersion program could stay at Gunston or move to another MS and solve their concerns.  It's only the Taylor parents who specifically want immersion at WMS because otherwise they are likely to be moved.

If you read the APS Thought Exchange, you'd see that the immersion community is supportive of the program being sited anywhere centrally located in Arlington or staying at Gunston.  They are being pretty darn reasonable.  It's APS that said that TJ isn't an option because of IB and Gunston isn't an option because of overcrowding.  Swanson isn't an option because it's already over crowded so too many kids would need to move.  If IB isn't an issue for moving the program to TJ, then Kenmore should figure out why APS is wrong.[/quote]
A bunch of immersion Parents calling WMS unreasonable does not make it so. Locating immersion centrally was not a priority except for the vision board.  Option should go where this is capacity and not displace neighborhoods [/quote]

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