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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 know some are consigned to a future reality where we have two overwhelmingly caucasian schools, Williamsburg and Yorktown, since it’s not equitable to bus socio-economically diverse students to those schools. And instead focus on evening the demographic balance and disparities between Wakefield and W-L.

In other words let Yorktown and Williamsburg just be themselves for better or worse, even if APS will continue on the trajectory of the most segregated district in the region. Focus demographic balance on the other school pyramids. [/quote]
The solution is to have Yorktown cut down deeper into the  western part of the county (Swanson/Kenmore) and WL to stick to the eastern side (Hamm/TJ).  Guston stays with Wakefield. Fill Wakefield with the kids in the southern most parts and split the rest between Yorktown and WL.  Split WMS to balance enrollment between Yorktown and WL.[/quote]

If that’s workable, on the surface that sounds good. [/quote]

This was one option proposed a few years ago. It was rejected due to the community priority on proximity. I posted above, this is where the APS staff and board can’t win unless it identifies the priorities it seems best for the county and sticks with it. [/quote]

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