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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From watching the pre-CIP table session #1 tonight, I am struck by how much credence has been given to the recommendations of an immersion “visioning” process that - as far as I know - was not publicly noticed.

I will be researching the issue further, but I am deeply troubled by the lack of transparency on this issue. Some random assortment of stakeholders say they want one, centrally located middle school immersion program and we upend an entire county’s boundaries accordingly?[/quote]

Ugh. It’s nice that they have a vision, but I don’t think we all need to make the vision of a 300 kid program the priority for planning. Option programs should get what works for the whole county even if it’s not their ideal.[/quote]

I agree, but I also think its reasonable to look at one community's priority (though it is far from clear to me that the visioning process represents the immersion community).  If a priority for one community helps to solve a problem like overcrowding, isn't it a win all around?

But I do think it is flawed to think this will solve Gunston's overcrowding program.  At least half of the MS immersion program comes from Claremont which means most of those kids would go to Gunston MS anyway even if they weren't in the immersion program.  Moving immersion won't solve Gunston's overcrowding if a lot of those families pull their kids from immersion because it moves too far north.  It would be really great to see where kids who leave immersion go to MS and how many immersion kids live in each MS zone.  Even better would be this data by ES zone or planning unit.  If anyone knows where to find this data, please share.  If you had a lot of MS immersion kids commuting from the far north of Arlington to Gunston, I'd say moving to Kenmore makes more sense.  However, I don't expect this is the case. I would guess most immersion kids are concentrated close to 50 and in SA.  [/quote]

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