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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The families being rezoned to Williamsburg would have vigorously defended their right to attend Williamsburg before Hamm opened.  That's where they were zoned historically.  But now it's suddenly too inconvenient?  For a cohort of families with amongst the most resources in Arlington?

Instead they're now asking for a cohort of families with far fewer resources and means to trek across the county for MS?  Most immersion students live in the Gunston/Wakefield boundary.  That's a long way from Williamsburg.  And the program collapses without the Spanish speaking classmates, so that would be the end of it.  All so a few very privileged kids don't have to travel to an excellent MS that was considered their preferred option just a few years ago.[/quote]

Kenmore parents are rightly pissed off about thus, too! We don’t want the immersion program. We have STEAM already and don’t want another program that has its own “vision” disrupting and superseding our existing program and the neighborhood contingent. It’s patently stupid to move immersion here, when there is a population crunch in this corridor already. Move it where there is space, and always will be space due to restrictive housing policy that will take at least a hundred years to unwind. F*** you immersion jerks![/quote]
What impact would it have on STEAM?  I haven't heard any impact identified. This just sounds like irrational hand waving.[/quote]

[b]You don’t think having two distinct programs in one school is a problem? Gunston parents certainly complained that having Montessori and Immersion houses together was an issue.[/b] Will transfers still be allowed? Will Immersion parents insist all the Kenmore staff be replaced with bilingual teachers and administrators? None of these questions have been answered. [/quote]

So, Immersion with IB is fine. Immersion within neighborhood Gunston is fine. But Immersion within neighborhood Kenmore (because it has a STEAM focus) is not feasible? Montessori is incompatible with everything. The Gunston complaint is justified having THREE programs within it: neighborhood, immersion, and Montessori. Kenmore would have two: neighborhood with a STEAM focus (which isn't really a "program") and immersion. Immersion seems to work just fine within Wakefield (which has "AP and AP Capstone").

Every single question isn't going to be entirely answered before a decision is made. If APS operated that way, no decisions would ever be made for anything ever. But not all teachers in the whole school are required to be bilingual. I'm confident the immersion teachers at Gunston will be offered the opportunity to move to the program at Kenmore and if any teachers need to be replaced at Kenmore, those will be offered any opportunities available at Gunston or elsewhere. [/quote]

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