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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about making ATS a feeder into WMS?  That way friend groups could stay together post-elementary.

DC schools do this where option programs have their own feeder path.[/quote]

Yes. Campbell, both immersion schools, Montessori, and ATS could all feed into Williamsburg then Yorktown. That would solve the underenrolled North Arlington schools once and for all. [/quote]
Huh?  I don't know that those numbers add up at all and it's a super weird grouping.  [b]Immersion needs to be considered separately because it has specific needs and is intended to benefit and support English learners.[/b]

I do think it would work well to give ATS students the option to continue at WMS so they can stay with friends, even if the program doesn't continue into middle school.

I know less about the Campbell program and whether those families would be interested in continuing at WMS given commutes and whether most of those kids end up at the same middle school(s) already.[/quote]

And yet somehow Claremont has a lower FARMS rate and percentage of English learners than the surrounding neighborhood schools. I bet those parents would be happy to opt out of Gunston. [/quote]
Huh?  The ratio of English learners in immersion is set to 50/50 by definition.  And immersion feeds into Gunston so signing up for immersion isn't opting out of Gunston.  And Escuela Key parents are opting into Gunston and out of WMS/Hamm/Swanson by choosing immersion.

[b]Voluntary transfers last year prioritized TJ and Swanson as the most overcrowded APS middle schools.  If Gunston becomes the most crowded, presumably Gunston parents will be prioritized for a voluntary transfer to an underenrolled middle school.[/b][/quote]

It annoys me that this is thrown out as the solution.  People want to know where their kids will go to middle school and know they will go with a cohort from their elementary school and their neighbors.  It's not a solution to just say people from overcrowded schools can opt to go elsewhere.    Listen to what you're saying.  My school and its boundary works for me so several other over enrolled schools should just send their overages to my school.[/quote]
I don't think that's what it's saying at all.  I have a kid from an elementary school that splits for middle school.  The kids who didn't have an older sibling at the crowded middle school tended to apply to transfer, but those who did have an older sibling opted to go to the same school as their sibling.  This seemed to work out pretty well, with a lot of students going to their preferred school and less stressful than forcing students to swap.[/quote]

It doesn't work well for me.  I have a kid at Tuckahoe zoned to Swanson.  I don't really care where he goes.  Don't mind if we get a bus or not although he would be a walker to Swanson.  What about kids who want to go to the other school and don't get a transfer?  A lot of these schools have 1 or a just a handful of PUs going to a middle school.  If most kids get a transfer out and he doesn't, that sucks for him.  He was already supposed to go to Swanson with not many kids from his elementary school and what if he's one of the only ones who ends up there?  That's stressful.  Unless the policy is these kids are guaranteed placement at either school of their choice, which I don't think is the case.[/quote]
You're guaranteed to go to your home school.  No one is guaranteed a transfer.  It's not a that hard.  And yes, some boundary splits suck (see prior posts by Glebe, Ashlawn and ASFS parents) and don't make sense.  But the next round could very well be worse and redrawing boundaries is always disruptive.[/quote]

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