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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a NA parent with one kid in immersion and another at their neighborhood school.  This whole argument is silly.  APS has said that it needs to move the Immersion MS program from Gunston because of overcrowding. It isn't being moved because of a desire from Immersion parents, but because of the needs of a neighborhood school.

Immersion should be moved somewhere centrally located to the middle of the county because it's a county-wide program.  I don't really care beyond that.  Kenmore, Swanson and TJ all seem reasonable.  And it's not favoring a choice school to consider proximity and transportation in deciding where to locate the program, as that's a factor for all boundary decisions.  This is not some plot to disadvantage Taylor parents.[/quote]

Why does it need to be a central location?  It’s not central now. It’s a small county. It’s very convenient that the one assumption you make already nixes the smallest impact decision: move the program to the school with the most excess capacity in our small county.

But you knew you were being disingenuous . [/quote]

+1. “Should be centrally located” by whose standard? Why is that a priority when it displaces families living near those centrally located schools. Current Kenmore families are NOT happy about this.[/quote]

Nobody's ever happy about proposals that mean significant change for them.

Everybody here seems only able to think in silos - just like the County and APS. Centrally locating countywide programs means balancing out the accessibility for all students throughout the county. Meanwhile, "displacing" families who live near those schools merely means they go a little farther to another school and is comparable to (1) the students coming from across the county to the centrally located choice program and (2) students who bus to a school because they're not in a walk zone anyway.

Nobody is entitled to attend the school closest to them. Schools do not convey with the sale of a house or the signing of a lease.[/quote]

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