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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need to get rid of the immersion program. It’s ridiculous to bring out-of-bounds students to a school that doesn’t even have enough room for its in-bound students. [/quote]

Others disagree. Most immersion kids live in-bounds and there are more French speakers within the Kent Gardens district than in any other part of the county.   They can also address the overcrowding by changing the base boundaries as the surrounding elementary schools are under-enrolled. [/quote]

So you advocate for moving out approximately 200 base school students to allow comfortable infuson of about 200 out of boundary for a program?  KG program capacity is 848 and that could mean 53% of the students are immersion and 23% of the students are out of boundary.

KG should only receive extra funding for French immersion instructional materials not staff since the purpose of immersion extra funding is to account for attrition. 
Since FCPS considers the program out of boundary infusion more important than base school another option is to remove local level iv aap to create a center at Chesterbrook. 2021-22 stats:

Chesterbrook- ESL 29, aap iv 109
KG - ESL 167, aap iv 112.  What % of ESL is first language French and enrolled in immersion?

Transfer data:
Mclean pyramid 33
Marshall-Shrevewood 10+Westgate 16 + min 4=min 30
Langley -15 Springhill plus 4=minimum 19.
Madison -minimum 6
nearby minimums total 88

There are students from 16 other pyramids and 37 schools at minimum 1 /school transferring in- from Westfield to West Potomac.  At a site accessed by barely 2 lane no yellow line roads  with houses and sidewalks.  Maybe some of the 17 non immersion transfers are staff who live in boundary for those schools.  No easy answer to the mess FCPS made and perpetuated  at that site.  
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I can’t follow your numbers but KG is surrounded by ES in the same pyramid with capacity.  Moving some kids to other elementary schools where most of the kids also go to Longfellow and McLean seems[b] relatively benign.[/b]

It actually is a relatively easy answer, although opening up KG’s boundaries and programs to discussion obviously invites a debate. [/quote]

There is nothing benign about a base school boundary change when a school has a capacity of 848 and about 198 out of boundary students.  It means the site could end up with over 50% of the students in immersion. And the other schools with one kid listed as transferring in stretch from the far SW and SE points in this county.  If anything the massive immersion program should not get extra staff since there is no reason. [/quote]

You seem more interested in killing immersion programs than addressing the overcrowding at this school. [/quote]

That's BS.  Explain to me exactly why with about 450+ students the immersion program needs extra staff. With that many it's clearly not a class size attrition issue.  Care to furnish the immersion per class count count per grade level?  Break it down by base school and pyramid?  FCPS has done that wih AAP when the program was consuming the base school capacity.  So unless that info is divulged it appears FCPS is not following precedent. [/quote]

DS is in Japanese Immersion. I know that they have an aide who helps in the first and second grade Japanese classes. The younger grades have someone there to help while they are still grasping the basics of the language and to help with the math section since it is being taught in a different language. I also know that the first and second grade classes have 30 students in them most years so the aide really helps in the Japanese half of the day when the kids need the most support. I don’t know if Kent Garden’s French program has similar sized classes in first and second grade or has an aide to help with the French portion of the class but that is why the JI program has extra staff. [/quote]

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