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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This seems to have what I would assume as unintended affect of preventing some LI kids from being able to continue in their language.
This is actually awful, and unfair. It may be that some schools need to remain closed to transfers due to capacity, but there should not be an across-the-board ban that seriously affects LI kids. 
Anyone else planning to write their school board rep?[/quote]

As the one poster has pointed out, there is a school that is open to transfer and has German, Robinson. It has the bonus of being an IB school so right now kids would be able to pupil place for IB. They could do IB German and some IB elective classes to meet the IB requirement while taking some of the more common AP classes.

Most of the LI programs are Spanish. There are 2 Japanese, one that is really small and the other feeds into SLHS which has IB for transfer and Japanese. There is one school that offers Korean, one offering German, and one offering French. French and Spanish are easily available. [b]Japanese and German have an IB transfer option.[/b] Kids can continue with their language. Korean might be tricky but I don't know how big that program is.

People might not be able to choose the HS that is their ideal HS or continue on with classmates from ES but there are options. I do think there was an unintended impact on the LI schools but that is a really small number of kids. [/quote]

I’m not sure what you mean by this. We are at SLHS and in Japanese. There is no AP transfer school with Japanese, only Herndon now because that is the closest school. That means rising sophomore DC has to choose between switching to AP and dropping Japanese, or continuing in Japanese and staying in IB, which feels very unfair. [/quote]

SLHS is the home of Japanese Immersion, so technically you don't need to transfer to continue the program. I know people moved for AP/Japanese to Oakton but yes, that is no longer possible. I believe Western will have Japanese and is closer then Herndon for many families, so that might be an option in a few years. I know Fox Mill kids attending Skyview next year, I believe that there are enough for the JI class to be held for the 9th graders. I know 10th graders from Fox Mill who opted in to Skyview as well, that was an option and still could be an option since they did not fill up all the slots. [/quote]

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