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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The option schools.[/quote]

You mean close the high performing schools that are full and super popular with waiting lists, while there are under enrolled elem schools that no one wants to go to (ahem Drew). lol, no. 
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The programs are super popular because middle class families don't want to send their children to the low-performing schools. Not everyone can access those programs and the busing is a drain on our resources. [/quote]

so again you really want to close the highest performing and most popular schools? we should be opening more of them, not less.

close the low performing neighborhood schools that no one wants to go to. [/quote]

They are high performing because the class sizes are limited.   It’s basically tax payer funded private school for the privileged few. [/quote]

what do you mean by "the class sizes are limited"? [/quote]

Option schools can cap the size of their classes, and turn students away because classes are filled. Neighborhood schools don't have that option. In our family's experience, the class sizes at our neighborhood elementary school were significantly larger than class sizes at nearby option schools. [/quote]

Class sizes are specified by the planning factors and are the same for all schools (except Montessori which has higher class sizes but has aides). Option schools don't have lower planning factors than other schools. Neighborhood schools may be affected by late registrations or people moving in-boundary during the school year, but people also move away. [/quote]

Correct. This was a few years back. The neighborhood school was significantly overenrolled, and the option schools were not. Are you saying class sizes are the same throughout APS? This was not our family's experience or observation.   [/quote]

Different poster.  Take a look at the class size reports. https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2024/06/CSR-Revised-5.7.24.pdf

I've known of APS teachers hired in the fall, after neighborhood schools see how many more kids show up than they were planning on (late enrollments), and then have dreamy small classes, like less than 15 kids.[/quote]

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