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[quote=Anonymous][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]

From Thought Exchange, it looks like the big issue for Kenmore parents is that they are moving most Ashlawn students to Swanson and leaving just a few at Kenmore. But that should be pretty easily fixable. [/quote]

Kenmore parent here. Our concerns are splitting up more of the neighborhoods that feed to Kenmore, the traffic, and making the school more economically and ethnically segregated. In both the boundary shift map and moving immersion to Kenmore those things happen. We lose walkers, neighborhoods are split, and we lose more affluent neighborhoods. None of those are good things for the school.

I guess I’m not convinced why IB and Immersion can’t coexist, or why moving the program where we have space in a corridor that isn’t experiencing growth via up-zoning, even if it’s not ideal for some current families, isn’t better than what they have proposed. I don’t understand why moving the MS to a school with a lot of Hispanic kids who are not and cannot be in Immersion will benefit the kids at the school, or why moving it to WMS would harm it. If you were also talking about making Campbell or Carlin Springs the Immersion ES, then maybe this would make sense to me, because then you’d accidentally capture more EL students in ES and perhaps keep them for MS if the K-8 programs were in the buildings they believed to be their neighborhood schools. But you aren’t helping more native speakers who are EL by moving just the MS program, when the EL kids at Kenmore can’t enroll. So it seems to me that moving it to WMS would have no impact on EL kids. Am I wrong? [/quote]

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