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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Time to get rid of French immersion. It would free up space as more families move to the area, reduce traffic and create a true neighborhood school [/quote]

Sure, and let’s get rid of AAP, IB, Academy programs, and TJHSST while we’re at it.  That would all free up funds and/or create more “true neighborhood schools.”  [/quote]

Good idea to get rid of IB! Ot have it at 2 schools academy style.   Academy programs are valuable and TJHSST could join other VA governers schools run on an academy model rather than full time.  One problem with Kent Gardens is that fact that it is run as a true neighborhood school and an Arlington County option school simultaneously.

Given it's walkable neiighborhood location for many students and narrow no yellow line access roads , the location makes no sense.  Those programs went in willy nilly decades ago.  FCPS even had JIP at 2 adjacent sites-Fox Mill and Floris.

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In the scheme of things the fact that FCPS has concentrated so many IB programs at high schools in the southeastern part of the county (Annandale, Edison, Justice, Lewis, Mount Vernon) where students are actually less likely to take IB courses is a bigger issue than having a French immersion program at an elementary school in an area where there are a lot of parents with diplomatic ties or otherwise interested in immersion.

Removing immersion from KG is a non-starter.  FCPS already under-invests in the McLean pyramid in terms of both operating and capital expenditures and not even Elaine Tholen, who has neglected the pyramid for three years, is going to strip KG of its immersion program.

What they are doing is starting to cut back on out-of-boundary placements (from 40% to 25%), which shouldn't be especially controversial, since some immersion programs are already school-based only.  And if the KG area continues to attract more families (it is mostly a single-family area, but there are a lot of older houses getting torn down and replaced with bigger houses purchased by younger families with kids), they can adjust the KG boundaries with Chesterbrook and/or Franklin Sherman.  If there is further demand for French immersion, they can add such a program to another school, such as Dunn Loring when it reopens, or to one of the existing under-enrolled elementary schools elsewhere in the county.   [/quote]

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