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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ASFS being a neighborhood school outside of its boundary is a problem that APS staff created for themselves when making ASFS the neighborhood school for the zone, rather than Key. [/quote]

Right, which is why [b]Immersion has to move. Option schools don't get to be hogged by specific neighborhoods.[/b] [/quote]

What's that mean, "hogged by specific neighborhoods?" If you mean only kids from certain boundaries have a realistic shot at option schools, well that used to be the case but is no longer. It's a blind lottery, just like DC or MoCo, and open to kids across the County.

If you mean option schools shouldn't take up neighborhood seats, you're not making sense. The option schools have to go in existing buildings, which are in neighborhoods. So if it's not in YOUR neighborhood, they're going in someone else's. There is zero impetus to build a new school for Immersion. And APS is not getting rid of Immersion, so let's not even travel down that route.[/quote]

That's not what I was saying. ASFS was a neighborhood school/team hybrid and Key was a hybrid of sorts, too, being both an option and a neighborhood school. If you lived in the Key zone, you had guaranteed admittance to either school. I have seen comments that people are angry that they don't still have those guarantees, hence the "hogging" comment. The policy had to change, it was right for it to change, because kids should have equal opportunity to attend programs regardless of where they live. If they had made Key a purely neighborhood school last year, that would've meant moving immersion sooner. Is that what you are saying? They should've made the switch already? They can't both be option schools. To make ASFS the neighborhood school but keep Key countywide doesn't seem to make sense from a transportation perspective. They'd have to draw odd boundaries, increasing transportation costs, to make it work. If this were meeting some other objective, like balancing diversity, or maintaining access for Latino populations, it might make sense, but it doesn't appear to do either of those things. I suspect the one-time cost of moving the program is lower than the ongoing cost of keeping it where it is. I don't think they're doing this for sh**s and giggles. [/quote]

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