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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This attempt to control for diversity seems so ill conceived. APS can do what it wants and redistrict all it wants. No way will their silly attempts fundamentally change anything, though.  People in N. Arlington will either sell and move to Fairfax County, or send their kids to private before sending them to a horrible school.  Lol, [b]can you imagine any parents in the current  Williamsburg zone allowing their kids to go to Kenmore? Ridiculous[/b]. [/quote]

I do not have to imagine it.  I know 3 families in my circle of friends who are zoned for Williamsburg but decided to send their kids to Kenmore.[/quote]

Oops, forgot one.  Make that 4 families.[/quote]
Sure.[/quote]

The only way you'd believe me is if I posted their names and addresses and I am not going to do that.  Those 4 families felt Kenmore was a better fit for their children then Williamsburg and in each instance their child attended for all three years of MS.  [/quote]

Williamsburg sent 28 kids to Kenmore
  Swanson sent 36.  It's on the transfer report.  No need to go on personal anecdotes.  [/quote]

Why do families transfer to Kenmore (pure curiousity, no judgment - I have babies)?[/quote]

My daughter is a transfer to Kenmore from Williamsburg.  We moved in the summer -- but we had transferred her in the winter when she was zoned for Gunston.  She loves Kenmore.  Entranced by all the technology and theatre.  She's hoping to get a STEAM certificate by graduation -- I've probably outed her, but I don't care.  She was at ATS - we lived in Fairlington so Abingdon would have been her home school, we had always planned to move during elementary to a single family home.  She told me yesterday that her English class has 13 kids in it.  No class is over 21 for her.  She's being pulled out for Math enrichment during their homeroom period and is volunteering to read books to kids at Carlin Springs one day a week.  All of the staff that we have encountered have been amazingly responsive and helpful.  There were a number of ATS kids who transferred to Kenmore this year instead of going to their neighborhood MS. [/quote]

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