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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Count me among the immersion families very happy to hear this.[/quote]

We're an immersion family too.  Why are you happy to hear this?[/quote] gunston is a terrible location for most of the county. I’ve heard quite a few families say they won’t have their kids go to middle school program bc of commute (and my kid is still in early elementary! These are parents of kids in his class). We need less attrition to continue to see health and growth of program. What is your reaction? [/quote]

I'd like to see solid data on where immersion families live and the reasons they leave before I'm convinced moving to Kenmore will improve the immersion program.  I've always been told most of the immersion families live in South Arlington so moving further north doesn't help them and may actually lead to a smaller immersion program if families choose the closer middle school to where they live (Gunston).   Looking just at the boundaries for Key and Claremont doesn't tell you where in those boundaries families actually live.  For example, if there is nobody from the more northern parts of Arlington who is in the immersion program, getting closer to the geographic center of Arlington doesn't actually make sense.  Obviously Kenmore is more convenient for families in central Arlington, but APS should be looking at where families live across the whole program.

It has been a nice thing for the immersion kids to go to middle school with peers who all move together to high school.  Non-immersion peers at Kenmore will go to W-L and Yorktown.  Only a small piece of the current Kenmore zone goes to Wakefield.  Disrupting a cohort that can actually move from MS to HS together seems a shame.  And then there is all of the disruption to the program itself.  Gunston is used to immersion and how to integrate with it.  Kenmore hasn't done this before.  It would be very unfortunate if there is a lot of change and disruption for all concerned and it ends up hurting the immersion program because Kenmore is too far north.  Again, seeing data on where immersion families live would be useful for the conversation. [/quote]

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