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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Seriously, what is the terror for a smaller program — most parents prefer smaller schools.[/quote]

Two issues:  (1) people who believe in immersion want the program to be available to anyone who is interested.  Shrinking the program risks excluding kids who want the program and would benefit.

(2) A bigger program means a louder voice when APS suggests changes which might be detrimental to it.[/quote]

The vast majority of people who want Immersion do so to avoid sub-par neighborhood schools, hence why so many non-native on the waitlist. [/quote]

One look at the transfer report shows that to be mostly 
false. The largest sending school to Key is Long Beach, followed by Taylor. 90 students each. The most "subpar" sending schools to key are Barrett and Glebe,  I guess, which send a combined 90 students to key, and probably most of them Spanish speakers the school desperately needs. These four schools account for over half of the student body.

At Claremont, neighborhood preference and the fact that Spanish speakers aren't so segregated from English speakers by neighborhood makes it harder to analyze what portion of students are avoiding neighborhood schools. But 230 come from Abington and 92 came from Oakridge. That's about half the student body. Those schools don't have subpar performance, at least not relative to the other south Arlington elementaries nearby. Oakridge has a lower farms rate than claremont, in fact.[/quote]

Barrett and Glebe do not have anywhere near test scores or resources of other no Arlington schools.

Again, read PPs : Long Branch and Taylor attndees are about proximity, both those schools are at the far end of their zone. If you are going to metro anyways, it’s a no-brained.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ESZones_Letter_2018_web.pdf

Whoa, 19 from Discovery! Probably got vertigo from the slide.

What is more telling will be the long waitlist you are saying needs to be met.[/quote]

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