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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems fairly clear that the county wants to be finished with immersion.[/quote] Well it was started during a period of declining enrollment so maybe not a fit for now [/quote] Whichever way you want to spin your dislike for immersion, the program is immensely popular in the county. Just because the ill-conceived swap plan isn’t going to fly doesn’t mean APS has all of a sudden rejected this program and is working to phase it out. The immersion program was placed at Key because, historically, north Arlington parents don’t send their kids to diverse schools unless there’s a special program attracting them, and at the time Key would not have been attractive to many families absent some type of educational incentive.It worked. The school became popular. It is a model of success. Dismantling the program would undo one of the only successful efforts of the county at balanced and voluntary socio-economic integration. I assume the county is treading carefully when it comes to dismantling integrated schools in North Arlington given that there are schools with fewer than 1% free and reduced lunch populations in the mix. Cry me a river when it comes to the need for the arlington science focus families to have a bigger building and avoid impacts of boundary changes. The swap was always a bad faith undertaking that certain people believed could be guaranteed by throwing around their money.[/quote] Bullocks. The VAST majority of Key attendees are from Long Branch and Taylor (over 80%) — which tells you they likely are attending Key b/c it’s closer and better for their parents commute. Not immersion. It’s all about location. Sorry, but I know lots of people at Key who don’t live within the immediate boundary and for every single one of them it complicate the commute and makes it more difficult. To suggest that is the motive behind enrolling at Key is laughable and just entirely out of touch with reality. https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Transfer-Report-2017-18.pdf[/quote][/quote] 1) learn how to quote [b]2) learn how to read a transfer report; that’s great you know 5 people who have a harder commute (not sure why they don’t bus then), but the report show 80% come from LB and Taylor, a strong geographic preference.[/b] [/quote] NP, but maybe you need to teach me how to read a transfer report as well--- the report you linked states that in SY2017-18, there were 86 transfers from Taylor and 90 from LB, for a total of 176 out of 404 transfers-- that's not even 50%. Even if you add in the Key attendance zone folks (because some of them probably did just go to Key based on location), which is 296, you still only have 472 of the 700 coming from those three attendance areas (Key, LB, Tayor), which is still less than 70%. Where does this 80% strong geographic statement come from? What am I missing? [/quote] Le sigh. yes of course I included the Key attendance zone. And yes, I didn't actually whip out my calculator, so it's 70% vs 80% but my point still stands. Its patently obvious.[/quote]
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