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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]They will certainly grandfather. Besides, Key's going to "lose" so many of their current students, there should be plenty of room at ATS for anyone who wants to stay![/quote]

I actually don't think there will be grandfathering.  The scope of the changes are going to be so high that allowing grandfathering will really gum up the works and make planning extremely difficult.[/quote]

I don’t believe that they would force kids to change programs and leave all their friends behind after the outcry caused by the recent move proposal, or even before it.[/quote]

Well, a kid who's currently attending Key would either need to stay with the program and move to ATS, or return to their neighborhood school.  If they were from another part of Arlington and stayed at Key after it was a neighborhood, then THEY would be the ones leaving their friends behind.  [/quote]

You are talking about two different things.  The 'grandfathering' being referred to here is whether kids whose immersion choice is currently Key, but with the realignment the immersion choice becomes Claremont, will have to move to Claremont or will stick with Key- and vice versa.  Right now kids who live next door to ATS, and choose immersion are going to Claremont.  There are also more kids overall and many many more Spanish speakers who are zoned to Claremont for immersion than are zoned to Key.  APS has been talking about doing a realignment of the immersion feeder schools for at least 4 years, but keeps on putting it off b/c they also knew that a program move might be necessary.
When Discovery opened it became a Key feeder school, but some kids who had previously had Nottingham as their neighborhood school (which is a Claremont feeder school) were already at Claremont.  APS agreed to grandfather those kids to Claremont, but not their younger siblings.  It remains to be seen what will happen here, and it may partly depend on how large scale a realignment it is.  [/quote]

I think both programs should fall under one lottery - applicants list their preference and APS fills the slots based on a combination of factors including proximity, 50/50 seat split, and siblings.[/quote]

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