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[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]

Which school? How far back? Just looked at several years of traffic light reports and it doesn't seem to have been an issue for quite a while. It might have been a bubble in your kid's grade that they couldn't address by adding a class without then creating very small class sizes (and needing a trailer for that one additional class).

https://www.apsva.us/statistics/enrollment/[/quote]
My experience has been that option schools fill up to the maximum planning factor, so tend to have big classes.  Our neighborhood school often has smaller classes because they divide the kids into the correct number of classes to stay under the planning factor and this often results in smaller classes since the number rarely divides perfectly.[/quote]

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