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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Expanding Kenmore is only a good idea if boundaries are redrawn to bring in the families in single family homes. Otherwise it will just continue to be a school where the majority of families are economically disadvantaged.[/quote]

OR, make the additional seats the middle school immersion seats.  That opens 300 seats at Gunston.  I'm sure the Kenmore boundary can be expanded northward or eastward or northeastward, whatever it needs to, to fill-up the other 200 new seats.  But I think centralizing middle school immersion will encourage more to continue the program beyond elementary and a 500-seat expansion at Kenmore could easily and fairly quickly fill-up with just immersion.

I think this also helps to keep all the middle schools essentially the same size, since the immersion program could be made to be independent or partially independent within the larger school, giving the sense of the rest of the school being similar in size to the other middle schools.  It also opens middle seats farther in South Arlington where they'll be needed.  Hamm is still under-capacity and can take on students in the north.[/quote]

I agree with this take. As long as the additional seats are not neighborhood. It’s not equitable or fair to supersize Kenmore, the only MS with a majority disadvantaged population. If the seats are Immersion and largely independent, it’s not as much an issue.[/quote]

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