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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at Fox Mill and love the Japanese Immersion program. I have no problem with including out of boundary kids in the program but our school is not over crowded. The additional kids in the program help it stay viable. I know that some immersion programs are limited to people who are in boundary for that school and I think that is fine. If a specialized program is leading to over crowding then common sense says that you limit access to that program. [/quote]

9:43 here.  JIP also used to be at Floris and is still at Great Falls.  Either Fox Mill or Floris used to get additional staff beyond 1.5 to not drain reg ed teachers.
2 programs for the same language at adjacent schools is evidence of the random nature of where the program was installed.  The merger
 http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2005/oct/12/japanese-program-moving/

Even at peak numbers pre Colvin Run the GFES JIP did not have the numbers pre merger.  CRES did not want the JIP but it did open an AAP center.  It seems that Fritsch might have stumbled upon an obvious solution for French with Dunn Loring.  But that leaves FCPS with 2 French sites in the scope of things beng in the same area of the county?  [/quote]

It's Frisch, not Fritsch, and you will search in vain for any suggestion when the School Board decided to shift the $35M set aside to build a school further west to accelerate a Dunn Loring renovation that the intent was to make Dunn Loring an immersion school.

Of course, they will need to justify the building's redeployment as an elementary school when it is surrounded by schools that are projected to be under-enrolled like Cunningham Park, Freedom Hill, and Vienna, and if adding an immersion program there helps attract kids, great, but robbing KG of a long-running, successful program to make Frisch look better isn't an option.

The whole situation reminds me of the Shrevewood fiasco, where it looked like there was a common-sense quick solution to Shrevewood overcrowding that would involve relatively limited boundary changes at three schools, and could be implemented quickly, and instead relief is going to be delayed for years because Frisch pushed the DL renovation that is going to take years instead.  The overcrowding at KG is real, and also a problem, but also one that can be fixed relatively easy if only the right people were actually paying attention.   Tholen thinks she is being helpful by reducing the percentage of out-of-boundary kids allowed to attend KG, but of course is allowing it to be phased in so slowly that, with the additional families with kids moving into the KG district, it won't have the net effect expected.   [/quote]

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