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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Immersion is only offered at a few schools, and there is no busing available. It is, therefore, de facto unavailable to 80-90% of FCPS elementary students.

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You're saying 90% of FCPS students would have no way to get to school if they got into an immersion program that was not in their base elementary school?  Where are you getting that statistic?

I think more than 10% of FCPS students have a stay-at-home parent, or a parent with a flexible enough schedule to do the driving, or a childcare provider who drives, or someone who is willing to carpool to school with them.

There are only 2 magnet elementary schools and 2 math & science focus schools in the district.  I guess we should get rid of those, too.

You were initially arguing that some of these programs [u]benefit [/u]only a select group of students.  My point was that there are lots of programs that benefit only select students, including band & AAP.  But now you are talking about [quote]availability[/quote].  Immersion is available, it just doesn't work well for some people's schedules.  But let's face it, we all have scheduling issues, and the availability of busing is not the only one.  It's hard to make a blanket statement that lack of busing makes the program unavailable.  For some parents, the immersion school might have school hours that work better for them than their local school's hours.  It might be easier to drive than to stay home and wait for the bus each morning.  I mean, it sucks for me that my kids are on the latest start time in the County (9:15) so their bus doesn't come until 8:50, which means I can't possibly get to my office in DC until close to 10am if I get them on the bus myself.  So I have to get childcare for the mornings.  It also sucks that they have a half-day every Monday; I have to arrange childcare for that too because I can't leave work early enough to get home in time for them.

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