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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I assume that they use K-8 to avoid any noise from one class year that has a particularly large or small class size within a specific planning unit. The value is not in the total number, but in the comparison between the two scenarios (i.e., if immersion moves from Gunston to Kenmore, 1,900 students will have their boundaries changes, and if immersion doesn't move, 3,200 will).

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]my totally uninformed guess is that they are not moving immersion[/quote]

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

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[/quote]

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[/quote]

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. [/quote]

Why would moving middle school immersion impact K-5?[/quote]

I wondered that too.  PP's numbers are meaningless.[/quote][/quote]

There is no value in the comparison, the numbers are untrustworthy if they include K-5 grades -- a later demographic bulge in nonimpact grades would distort the impact.

They should demonstrate impacted PUs and number of middle school students, and the difference in buses.  Adding a PU here and there at a boundary just nudges a bus route -- obliterating half a walk zone that now must be bused introduces a dozen new routes and buses.[/quote]

But minimal boundary changes around the fringes isolate kids who are in those PUs. It’s better to have a critical mass of students moved than just a few. Look at those PUs from Ashlawn who had this done to them last time around and how vocal they’ve been about the alignment mess from it.

If you’re gonna move me, fine. But please don’t make my kid one of only a handful at middle school from his elementary school.[/quote]

The middle schools don't align with elementary any way, so they can fiddle around the edges and not end up with any loners.  Just grandfather in existing middle school students and its easy.[/quote]

Grandfathering isn’t easy. For current 6th graders, in two years you are busing just that class to one MS and kids in the same neighborhood to another. As a FYI, bus drivers are in short supply. [/quote]

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