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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of Alcova is not going to Fleet. Wishful thinking.  The board is interested in Barcroft as an option school because it is land locked.  Randoph is projected to be at 110% from just walk zone so I doubt anyone is moving there.  Fleet was supposed to replace Henry when Montessori moved in... it was not the new elementary school promised S Arlington to relieve overcrowding.  Oakridge will need to split between Drew and Hoffman Boston with portions of Henry and Abingdon moving to Drew maybe... last night there was mention of moving Campbell to Claremont, Carlin Springs to Campbell... where does either Immersion go?        [/quote]

If they move the neighborhood school currently at Carlin Springs to Campbell, doesn't that leave Carlin Springs open to take the immersion program currently at Claremont that would be displaced by Campbell?[/quote]

NP, but, yes, that's the idea being bandied around.  Campbell to Claremont, Claremont to Carlin Springs, and Carlin Springs to Campbell.  All the Cs!  No idea whether this scenario is seriously under consideration, though.[/quote]

What would be the reasoning behind it? To get a neighborhood school at Campbell instead of Carlin Springs? In that case why not just switch Campbell and Carlin Springs and leave Claremont alone?[/quote]

Moving Claremont to Carlin Springs puts it closer to more native Spanish speakers than the current Claremont building (at least that's the case they are making- I have no idea what the actual numbers are)[/quote]

Campbell and Carlin Springs are two miles apart. Are there really so many families who want immersion but are put off by an extra two miles? I could see if we were talking about

Who is pushing for this? [b]People who would be walkable to Campbell?[/quote][/b]

No, doubtful. They may not even be aware. The Campbell walk zone is heavily ELL and fr/l, and they gave very little feedback to the walk zone survey for either Carlin Springs or Campbell. This is simply an issue of moving kids off buses. They built Carlin Springs in a bad area for walking, because half of the walk zone is in another county. The majority of the walk zone is on the opposite side of Carlin Springs Road, and therefore few can safely walk despite proximity. Campbell happens to be on the side of Carlin Springs closer to where more kids live, and where theoretically a walk zone could be drawn where no students have to cross Carlin Springs. But that community may be very unpleasantly surprised to learn that they will have to now walk their kids to school. And it's a less nice facility than the much newer Carlin Springs building. It's not a great walking area (meaning, there are lots of traffic violations in this neighborhood and people there might find walking their young kids a huge inconvenience (it'd be a time suck, when they can just put them on a bus now). They feel differently about older kids who can safely walk themselves, and are happy to let them walk to Kenmore for MS. Also, it's my understanding that a lot of kids who are at Campbell do live in the walk zone. Theoretically, should they choose to follow EL if it moved, they would be bused to either Carlin Springs or Claremont. If the option schools are going to grow, that might be a lot of kids we're talking about. Generally, the feeling is Campbell does not want to move, but Claremont would be a more favorable site than Carlin Springs for EL. It seems like a lot of shuffling around for potentially small gain, when we're talking about moving three schools, two of which are options and will still require a lot of buses, possibly more than are needed now. Not sure that they've done that level of analysis yet. If you save 5 neighborhood buses, but have to add 6 for the option schools, then you've just wasted the expense and political capital of moving 2 or 3 schools for what?[/quote]

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