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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Got another one: emersion in entire school. Rather than bus these kids west and these kids east, could we have emersion in the schools where they are now, but also have some parts that are not emersion so we don't have to bus out non-emersion kids?

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That's basically what it was before Claremont came along. APS already had Key, but wanted to open access to the program in S Arlington. So it started "schools within a school" at Oakridge, Abingdon & Hoffman-Boston. The neighborhood kids went through the normal curriculum, but there was a subset of students taking the immersion curriculum. It's why families zoned to those schools had a priority to get into Claremont, once it opened. But from what I heard, that "two schools in one" concept did not work as well as intended - and I don't think APS is going back to it. Hence the Montessori program moving out of Drew and into its own building at the Patrick Henry site. I'm not saying it [b]couldn't [/b]work, as MoCo uses this format throughout many of its choice schools. But APS is not high on it. [/quote]

It is also very costly and difficult to ensure qualified staff for so many individual programs.  [/quote]

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