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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not make clusters (with some minor boundary changes), and give everyone within the boundary four choices: immersion, Montessori, STEAM, or traditional/neighborhood. Then take three buildings and have an immersion/Montessori building, a STEAM building, and a neighborhood building. Everyone in the three-school boundary would rank their three choices and hopefully everyone would get their first or second choice. A good number of kids should be able to walk and APS would provide busing to all three but it wouldn't have to be cross-county. It wouldn't help diversity a ton if you wanted the boundaries to be contiguous but you could do east-west clusters and cross 50 where possible. Possible clusters could be Tuckahoe/McKinley/Ashlawn, Nottingham/Reed/ATS, Discovery/Glebe/ASF, Jamestown/Taylor/Key, Carlin Springs/Campbell/Barrett, Claremont/Abingdon/Drew, Barcroft/Randolph/New ES, and Long Branch/Patrick Henry/Hoffman Boston/Oakridge. [/quote]

While I like the creative thinking- I don't think this is feasible for a few reasons;
1. The immersion model is dual immersion and requires close to a 50/50 balance of native speakers.  There is no way you are going to get anywhere close to that with those boundaries.  
2. MOntessori is just not that popular- it doesn't fill county wide.  I honestly think Arl should be ending it- but this probably won't happen b/c it has powerful advocates.
3. This is effectively the old Jamestown/Taylor/Key/ASFS 'team' model.  As we saw- it works well with schools with space.  With crowded schools the system locks up.  [/quote]

Np.  I will add that it would be much more difficult to staff 8(!) immersion schools than it is to staff 2.[/quote]

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