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[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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It’s an option school.  It’s not an equity problem if it changes location within the county.

It’s 7 miles from Gunston. Gunston to HB is almost 5 miles in a dense urban heavy traffic corridor with zero free street parking.  How is HB not an equity problem based upon your fanciful concerns.

If they are committed to Immersion, then it can where capacity is. If not, it’s not worth the hassle of buying special texts, limiting hiring to bilingual teachers, etc that go along with the immersion program because people are choosing it for frivolous reasons and don’t value it. [/quote]

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