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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would people think about giving priority admission to choice programs to students from adjacent elementary schools (the schools where, if the option site were instead a neighborhood site, the school's boundaries would likely draw from their zones) when those schools are facing a capacity crisis. So if ATS stays where it is, when any of Barrett, Ashlawn, Reed, or Glebe are facing disproportionate overcrowding as compared to the system as a whole, they are guaranteed that X number of seats in the incoming kindergarten class are set aside for students from their zone, and any students from their zone who don't get a seat through that lottery get put into the general lottery with all the other applicants (so they should end up with more than the minimum number of students getting in, the minimum just sets a guaranteed floor). If seats open up in later grades, waitlisted students from those schools are offered the seat first before it goes to the person at the top of the list from another school. If the program moved to Nottingham, then the priority would go to Tuckahoe, Discovery and Reed instead. If you moved it to Carlin Springs, Campbell/Claremont (depending on which one would become neighborhood) and Barcroft get priority. It wouldn't be a cure-all for whichever area loses potential neighborhood seats to an option program, but would at least help alleviate some of the burden that would result.

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Haha, we *JUST* took away neighborhood priority to Key Immersion.  They are not going to walk that back anytime soon, would be so embarrassing. [/quote]

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