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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I emailed Gatehouse (student transfers) about this issue (I have a high schooler who needs to stick with a language she started but wants to switch to AP, her language not available at closest AP school.) and they were completely dismissive. Basically too bad, so sad, go talk to your school counselor (who had already advised us to email Gatehouse)

Who can I escalate to?[/quote]

I don't think it is going to change. They realized that kids are using languages to transfer out of lower ranked schools to higher ranked schools. It will be interesting to see how the number of transfers drop at Langley, Oakton, WSHS, and the like. I know people used language to transfer from Herndon to Langley, those kids will have to stay at Herndon unless they transfer to SLHS for IB. SLHS sent kids to Langley, Westfield, and Oakton for AP and language, I would guess that those kids will now be told they have to go to Herndon.

The point is to decrease the number of students at schools close to capacity and stop kids from transferring out of lower ranked schools. They did not close the IB to AP loop hole but removing the language alters what schools can move to from IB for AP, no idea if that will make transferring less interesting. [/quote]

But students haven't been allowed to transfer to schools at or exceeding capacity in the past either.
If a school has capacity, who cares if students are transferring in? Is it worth punishing some 15 year old? [/quote]

i think the boundary review may have opened some people’s eyes to transfers. especially now that some changes put schools at higher capacities. i think if a kid is in 9th and in the language they should be able to continue (same with immersion kids). but for kids who haven’t reached high school and just have an interest in a language shouldn’t get to switch schools for one class[/quote]

Why?  They are encouraging pupil placements for the Lewis Leadership Program, which is a hell of a lot less rigorous than learning Russian. [/quote]

No one cares about people transferring into Lewis, it is underenrolled. It is under enrolled partly because of people transferring for language. IB will still give people a way to transfer but WSHS is effectivly closed for the kids who were using AP and language, the other HS might be less desirable for people.

I don’t think it was only Lewis and WSHS, the language moves from Herndon are there as well, kids transfer to Langley for Russian from Herndon and SLHS. Langley is now off limits, Herndon kids have to transfer to SLHS if they want a different school. SLHS has only Herndon for AP.[/quote]

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