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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The process seems to be shifting to emphasize ideal immersion location, and sidetracking from the basic task of allocating sufficient seats to all planning units.  Maybe the vision of bringing the two immersion programs closer together needs to be reserved for another day, after Fleet  and Reed go live and we see whether seats really are available north or south?  If they can find enough space at that point to cluster two options in close proximity, then by all means. [/quote]

Disagree.  APS's materials point out that if we're going to be doing major boundary shifts, might as well do it all at once.  If option school locations are a problem in allocating neighborhood seats, then it's the right time to consider their locations as well.  I'm more and more coming around to the idea that we don't have the capacity for option schools any longer, but if they aren't going away then their locations are rightly on the table.  [/quote]

I"m in complete agreement and my kids are AT an option school. As a tax payer though, with an overcrowded "home" school, ARL can't afford this use of resources. The double-bussing is reason enough to cancel it from a fiscal perspective.[/quote]

Eliminating option schools wont alleviate overcrowding, it'll make it worse by drawing a sharper line between "good" north Arlington schools and "bad" SA ones. The demand for option schools is highest among the SA middle class. Remove option schools and they'll either move out of the county or if they can, scrape together every last cent to move into a quasi NA school like Fleet/Henry or Oakridge or North Arlington itself. And newcomers won't even consider SA. That is why Fleet will open over capacity.  All schools are choice schools, ya choose what you can afford. And there is more demand for "good" schools than supply.
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