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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are out-of-boundary and attend KG and it has been absolutely great for them. No, they are not going to be fluent just through this experience but it's an additional type of learning that's very beneficial for their developing brains, plus expands linguistic and cultural awareness daily from a young age. They have friends who are in-boundary and out, immersion and non-immersion (more immersion, yes, but it's not like there's a divide). My older DC is in both immersion and AAP and there are a lot of kids doing that, so seems not to be a problem (the class isn't smaller than normal). Love the admin, love the school vibe.

And and love that FCPS provides some non-mainstream options for families and kids who want them. In a school system of this size, there is no reason we shouldn't be able to support special programs.[/quote]
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My in-boundary child shouldn’t have to deal with trailers and overcrowding[/b] because another family wants a pony trick for their child. [/quote]

It's clear that in bound immersion transfers cause the 121% overcapacity problem at Kent Gardens.  What is not clear is how many base school students are in the program.  174 in bound /6= avg 29 per grade level.  KG has 147 this school year in grade 1. 5 classrooms and 2 or 3 dedicated immersion only?

No in boundary student should be faced with trailers and class size impacts for 100% optional programs.  Nor should taxpayers be footing the bill for the extra costs.  KG problems have existed for decades. All this stuff is from the new proposed CIP which is the only thing on boarddocs with any mention of the problem:

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Proposed-CIP-FY-2023-27.pdf				
				
CIP=Kent				
p 42 Table 8 				
Monitoring Capacity Concerns by FCSB for future consideration				
				
p 50 - history on what FCPS has done about the Kent Gardens overcapacity since the SY2012-13 school year.  Appears to have exhausted interior modifications.				
				
p 141 A, B, E, F, H 				
A. increase efficiency by re-assigning instructional spaces	- [b]already done	[/b]		
B. possible program changes			- [b]not done	[/b]
E. repurpose existing school facility not currently used as a school or build new		-  [b]Fritch's Dunn Loring?	[/b]	
F. capacity enhancement with a modular or addition	- [b]ridiculous to pay for because of a program	[/b]		
H. boundary adjustment		- [b]history of prioritizing pet FLI over base school at some ES	[/b]	
				
p 259-[b]trailer SF is 10% of the actual building![/b]				
Building 77,901 SF				
Temporary Classrooms 7,704 SF (11)

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