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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please APS, can we just remove option schools that are luck based and use the lottery system and be done? If someone wants immersion, traditional learning, or outdoor learning, they can go homeschool or private. [/quote]

So only rich folks get options. Got it. [/quote]

Ridiculous to take away the option programs [/quote]

They aren’t going to do that. However, they could stop generating such ill will toward option programs by not prioritizing them in this type of decision. The programs should move where there is space, not where it’s the most convenient for option parents. [/quote]Since when are the kids getting moved being prioritized?  They could leave the program at Gunston and move other kids.  That would cause a lot more disruptions for many more kids.[/quote]

Rather than cascading boundary changes AGAIN, they could easy peasy move the program to the schools that have capacity now and in projections and aren’t located in a dense part of the county. [/quote]

I see the logic in that approach...until the program has to move again because the school is crowded and there's space somewhere else. It isn't right to just keep moving programs around to fill in space. And since we seem to need to balance enrollment rather frequently, you can't count on not needing the space for more neighborhood seats again. Now, if you're fine with moving the program and then assigning any new neighborhood students to other neighborhood schools when the school is overcrowded, then you don't have to keep moving the programs around. But I don't think the people suggesting this would be willing to do that if it's their kid who doesn't get to go to the neighborhood school the kids down the block go to, are they? 
These programs need just as much stability as neighborhood schools. [/quote]

Here's the proposed boundaries to make immersion to Kenmore work. The purple lines are the old zones, the colors are the new zones. How is this better than just moving immersion to Williamsburg and having mostly the old boundaries instead? Note that Williamsburg continues to be approximately 5% FARMS, Kenmore loses some higher income units to Swanson, and more busses are required for the walk zones from Swanson and Hamm moved to Williamsburg and Kenmore to Swanson.

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I explained that in my post you're responding to. It isn't about the "now." It's about repeatedly moving the option program around to wherever there's more room in order to avoid general boundary changes.  And as your map shows, the [b]changes aren't significantly impacting every school - just the northern schools most[/b]. There's going to be a disproportionate impact no matter where you move immersion to. If it didn't upset your apple cart, you wouldn't give two licks where they moved it to.[/quote]

It significantly impacts the boundaries for 4/6 middle schools. 5/6 if you include the emptying of Gunston.

Are we expecting significant growth in the Williamsburg zone anytime soon? I would expect that to be the zone with the LEAST development so the program would be the most stable there.[/quote]

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