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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing to consider as we debate moving option schools is that all of the option schools also have VPI programs, and students currently in those VPI classes have the option of continuing at those schools when they enter kindergarten rather than transferring to their neighborhood school (except for Drew, because it's Montessori and VPI isn't). If you move one of those option schools to an elementary school that isn't currently outfitted for a preschool program, you'd either have to discontinue that school's preschool program or do a major renovation to accommodate a preschool program. Neither Tuckahoe nor Nottingham currently has a preschool program. I know Nottingham doesn't have enough classrooms with their own bathrooms to accommodate a preschool program in addition to kindergarten and first grade classes (all of which are supposed to have bathrooms in the classrooms), does Tuckahoe?

Moving ATS further north to a location that couldn't accommodate the VPI program would potentially kill its diversity numbers and make it a school for the [b]white UMC of North Arlington[/b] only.[/quote]

Before anyone jumps on me for just trying to deflect from Tuckahoe, let me say that up to now I've been pretty vocal in this discussion and others about Tuckahoe being a viable option school. The preschool thing literally just occurred to me, but I think it's an important consideration if we're sincere about wanting to create/maintain opportunities for lower-income students in Arlington. [/quote]

Come on now, I'm sure some of the white UMC of South Arlington will be willing to make the trip as well. :)

Seriously though, would automatic transfers work? Outreach and low income quotas in the ATS K Program? Can you have low income quotas in a choice program? I don't even know if that's legal. 
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That wouldn't work because it defeats one of goals of the VPI program, which is to allow those children an opportunity to get accustomed to their school environment before kindergarten so that the transition to kindergarten is less challenging for them. If you make them change schools, they have to get used to a new school with a new layout, different personnel, different rules/routines, etc.[/quote]

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