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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard Barcroft is in the mix because they want to nix the year round calendar, and the school has one of the highest transfer rates. Wouldn't be surprised to see them relocate immersion there. They have a ton of field space for trailers. [/quote]

They still have ten trailers there now.  
Nobody seems to have heard the SB members say they want to see the analysis after other factors are considered....like the accessibility to the site for vehicular traffic.  Barcroft is not particularly accessible for a countywide program.  And, it is also a very highly walkable school.  I don't recall hearing them say a school's calendar is one of the factors for consideration of a change to an option program.[/quote]

DP. Of course "Calendar" isn't going to be one of the considerations for identifying promising candidates for option school locations. But if they're faced with deciding between a few sites including Barcroft that all have their pros and cons, eliminating an unpopular school calendar could end up in the pro column for Barcroft. Other schools will have their own unique pros and cons.[/quote]

The calendar seems to be unpopular by people who don't even attend the school and who have not even given it a try.  I have not heard any outcry about the calendar from the families enrolled there.  That does not necessarily mean the current enrolled families will fight to the death to keep it, or that all of them care strongly one way or the other. But while a school's instructional focus may not be popular among those who don't attend it, that doesn't mean it isn't popular among those who go there.  Same with Barcroft's calendar.

And, despite the calendar, it remains a highly walkable school and many of its current students walk there now.  Follow all the other discussions about how low-income families have to have walkable neighborhood schools?  Well, Barcroft apartments is chock full of low-income families who walk to their neighborhood schools.

It may be under-enrolled now; but that doesn't mean it will remain that way when additional CAF projects are complete and boundaries are readjusted.[/quote]

I live near Barcroft and most people I know do NOT choose to send their kids there in large part because of the year round calendar. If you have two kids, once one of them is in middle school it's a disaster for any kind of family planning. It's definitely doing nobody any favors at this point. Time to end the experiment.[/quote]

I am a current Barcroft and middle school parent.  The two schedules is NOT a disaster and has not been a big issue.  The only issue we've had in two years of the different schedules is this year's winter concert being on the same night for both schools.  That had nothing to do with Barroft's calendar, rather having two kids in two different schools that don't coordinate concerts or events.  There have been hundreds of families who went through this dual-schedule before us, and I have not heard any big complaints or inability to manage it.  It actually has some advantages.[/quote]

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