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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a long thread about this recently if you search.

In summary, APS is doing nothing while Williamsburg sits under enrolled and several other middle schools are bursting.  People have varying opinions about this, which you can read.

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So move Immersion to Williamsburg from Gunston. [/quote]

Because then it places immersion at the furthest school in the county from a large percentage of the native Spanish speakers and/or low income families, so APS views that as an equity problem.

This is the cycle they get caught in. Not being able to settle on what their real priorities are and then making decisions.  They did the survey years ago about the six components of the decision and overwhelmingly proximity came out first.  Around the edges there will always be units for which that won't work out, but it makes it very hard for them to do major overhauls if they want to be responsive to what the large majority of APS families want.

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Right, people complain Williamsburg is not diverse and is too empty, but they also complain that something like moving Immersion there (which would add students and diversity) is inequitable. What are our actual goals here? To be fair, I wouldn't want to be moved there either if I was in the Immersion program, that school is terrible to get to. [/quote]

I think the complaint are less about it's inequitable and more about the model will fail if it's moved to Williamsburg.  The model is supposed to be a mix of native spanish and english speakers.   APS could just kill immersion past elemetnary school.  ACPS doesn't offer it as a separate track past elementary.[/quote]

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