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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have the other post on this topic.  My daughter started German immersion at first grade. We went to Orange Hunt for elementary, and Irving right now for middle, and we were supposed to go to West Springfield to continue on in German. Our base school does not have German.  I’ve been emailing back-and-forth to the transfer office in the basic messages so out of luck. 
German is my daughter’s favorite class, all her friends have been together in it since first grade, and now she has to change in high school

If they had let me know, maybe we would’ve changed her mind about middle school and she is an anxious and shy child as well  her friends are important to her[/quote]

There’s no German Immersion at WSHS. Your special program ended. Back to base school. You should have established residency in the Orange Hunt boundary back in 2018 if you cared so much about the high school. [/quote]

Bless your heart.  [/quote]

We own a home in WSHS boundary that was going to be rezoned out because of all these language transfers in. Of course I’m salty.

German Immersion in an elementary level program. There is no German Immersion at the middle school and high school level and no room in the neighborhood schools for extra students. [/quote]

Where other schools were concerned, FCPS rezoned kids to get schools down to 105% capacity.  To get WSHS down to 105% capacity, based on 2025-26 enrollment, they should be moving 218 kids out of WSHS.  But, there are only 51 transfers into WSHS this year.

So if they'd treated WSHS fairly, like they treated some other schools, they still would have needed to move 167 kids out of WSHS even if all the language transfers were eliminated.  [/quote]

Start with sending all the language transfers to Robinson or back to their base school.

Then do a residency check after class of 2026 graduates.[/quote]

So much gatekeeping.  Maybe WSHS should just be an ICE training academy. [/quote]

The school is over crowded, it is reasonable to not allow students to pupil place there for that reason. It isn’t gate keeping, it is preventing the school from being more crowded. When the County starts to talk about moving kids out of the school, it is reasonable to first stop the transfers in and make sure that the kids who are there are supposed to be there.

Not a WSHS parent but I get why they would be miffed.

FCPS needs to place full AP at all the of the HSs, name one HS per pyramid as an IB school that kids can apply to attend. Kids applying for IB agree to take the full diploma. This would stop the largest source of pupil placements.

Closing the language loop hole is a start to keeping kids at their base schools. It will help some of the struggling schools since the higher performing students who were transferring for a specific language cannot do that any more. It is hard for schools like Lewis and Herndon and Mt. Vernon who bleed hundreds of students a year to improve.

I feel badly for the language immersion kids because they have been told for years that they can pupil place for the language and now that is gone. I also know that a good number of kids in language immersion are there as a way out of poorly performing ES. It will be interesting to see how this change impacts LI, if the number of participating families declines because parents know kids can’t stay together. [/quote]

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