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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]Barrett and Glebe [/b]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]

You are correct about Barrett. You are incorrect about Glebe. Nobody is avoiding that school by going to Key. [/quote]

True but fact remains most attend b/c it is close to their home — and it’s curious how PP combined Glebe and Barrett numbers (since Glebe is very different from barrett) to conflate the numbers.

Regardless it’s a nice program, but its location shouldn’t be constraining neighborhoods, people who are dedicated to immersion will follow.

And I believe [b]it will end up in an office building style like upper baileys. [/quote][/b]

That's not going to happen in Arlington. It only happened in Bailey's because the building was in foreclosure. It's prohibitively expensive to buy and retrofit some of the priciest office space available (in Arlington) into a school. The Community Centers will be moved into vacant office space and the community centers will be turned back into schools first.

Lastly, your point about it being constrained to those nearby, DUH! Until this year you had an automatic in if you lived in the Key zone, and everybody else got what space was leftover. It can, and should, move, and people will follow. Or not, and then different families will apply. The program can survive just as well at ASFS as at Key, because Anglos will travel for it, and it's not going to be moving too far away from the Spanish-dominant households. [/quote]

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