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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]3. The school board mostly agreed with APS and requested that they make a direct announcement in hopes that they would lessen debate and angst. The school board was given two options for presenting this, they went with the most open and direct communication (as opposed to having them be options during the boundary revision). Postponing making key into a neighborhood school until 2020 or 2021 gives them time to figure out if there needs to be two neighborhood schools in the area, or if there is a better place for the immersion program. 
 4. The main concern both APS and the school board has is that the immersion program is too large for the current ASFS building. There were questions about how to build the building out as quickly as possible. Its interesting that building out asfs when it was a neighborhood school was never really discussed, but its being seriously considered since the building may house an option program. I think this speaks volumes to the commitment that APS has to maintaining the immersion program. [/quote]

I hope you're right about number 3 (and that APS will actually look at the data gathered over the next couple of years and decide then whether to really do the swap or send Key somewhere else).

I think you are wrong about number 4.  APS is never going to build out ASFS if Immersion goes there.  There are 3 unused classrooms in that building that APS has refused to rehab because it's cost-prohibitive.  If they weren't willing to do that for permanent seats, they are not going to do it for option seats.  They are sending Key to ASFS to slowly die.   [/quote]

DP. While I agree with you that they are unlikely to build out ASFS for the immersion program, they are not sending the program there to die. Keeping the program to 600 kids instead of 700 will not kill it. Let's drop the [b]histrionics[/b], hmm?[/quote]

Seriously, what is the terror  for a smaller program — most parents prefer smaller schools. 
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