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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If ATS goes to McKinley, some of MCK will move to the ATE building bc it’s within the McK boundaries. Still, it’s the most logical. [/quote]

The chances of McKinley becoming choice and ATS becoming neighborhood are nil. ATS would not have a good walk zone.[/quote]

Totally agree. But what happens if they move immersion to S Arlington, Key becomes neighborhood and those are the only changes made. You’ve just mad the seat deficit in S Arlington worse to give Clarendon/wealthy folks a neighborhood school. Right then and there they’d have to commit to a new neighborhood school in SA. [/quote]

Many more changes and moves are on the table.

Regarding immersion, they could go with one robust program rather than two anemic ones, and/or they could scrap the second full program and put immersion classrooms in some schools. The IB program is slated to have an immersion component. Maybe that plus one full program would be enough to exhaust the demand from Spanish speaking families.[/quote]

I've never heard anyone, anywhere describe the Immersion program at Claremont as "anemic." It's actually quite the opposite, with high demand, a wait list and a high majority of parents extremely satisfied with the school. And APS already did the "school within a school" concept for Immersion ...20 years ago. They're not going back to that model. [/quote]

In high demand for English speakers only.

Get ready for immersion “school within a school,” because it’s coming to an IB program near you soon.[/quote]
That will make it even harder to get the 50/50 enrollment at the current programs.  Maybe it will encourage more UMC English-proficient families to not opt out of that neighborhood program; but at what cost to the existing option program?  This is probably a lead-in to APS letting go of the 50/50 model.[/quote]

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