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            immersion is a waste of money especially for things like German, Japanese and all the other languages no one will continue to use. i am all for shutting it down.

Too bad shutting it down won't save any money.

If they do, the same kids will be somewhere else in FCPS. They will need classrooms, teachers, and everything else that costs money.

This last statement is untrue. It will save money.

Correct. FCPS says $1.9 million. [/quote]

Not entirely.  FCPS knows how much they spend as a budget line item for immersion right now.  They can isolate that item immediately.  What they haven't done is off-set that number with the costs of returning all the immersion children to their base schools.  This is partly because they can't know yet what exactly that will look like - how many of them will need busing to their base school?  Will it require an additional bus?  How many students will return to each base school?  How many of those students will need free or reduced lunch?  Will it require additional teachers and/or TAs at those base schools?  Will it require additional classrooms (trailers) for some schools that are already overcrowded?  Plus the administrative cost of getting all the students' records transferred to all the base schools.

Simply figuring that out would take weeks of sorting through the data.  They haven't done that.  The $1.9 million number is JUST the cost of immersion program.  It doesn't include costs incurred for cutting it. [/quote]

Oh please.  The sky is really not falling.  You're right that these kids will need to go to school somewhere.  And that's why every child in FCPS has a base school to attend.  If immersion didn't exist in the first place, those kids would already be attending their base schools.  They will simply hop on their neighborhood bus and go to their neighborhood school.  Records are very easily transferred (Computers! Amazing!).  I find it comical that some of you are really making this into a potential catastrophe situation.  Same with closing AAP centers.  Those kids have base schools to go to; they would simply go to them.  Simplifying is definitely better and more cost-effective.[/quote]

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