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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Dunn Loring is in Vienna/Merrifield.  Kent Gardens is in McLean.  They aren't really in the same area of the county.  FCPS needs to come up with something else to justify Frisch's folly in Dunn Loring, where an administrative building surrounded by under-enrolled ES is being renovated. [/quote]They are only 4.2 miles apart a 12 minute drive according to google.  That is fairly close for the district. [/quote]

At what time of day?  They are separated by the county's largest business district - Tysons.  It can take 10 minutes just to get through a few lights in Tysons.

Sorry but you'll need to find another program to justify Dunn Loring.  [/quote]It doesn’t sound like you are familiar with 5e area. You don’t go through Tysons to get from Kent Gardens and Dunn Loring.  You go on Idlewood.  There are three traffic lights. It doesn’t take very long- even during rush hour. [/quote]

It’s Idylwood, not Idlewood, and traffic backs up at multiple intersections on that narrow road (including at the Idywood/Route 7 intersection), so perhaps you are the clueless one.

Again, KG isn’t going to lose a longstanding immersion program just to make Karl Frisch seem like less of a bumbler. [/quote]I go on Idylwood  daily at all times of the day, it doesn’t back up much.  On the very rare occasion, I may have to wait one extra light at rt 7, but since Covid- that is maybe once a month.

I am not suggesting anything about moving any program, I was just calling you out on your assertion that the two schools were very far apart. [/quote]

Didn't say they are "very far apart," but they are in [b]different parts of the county in different pyramids and the KG program continues at Longfellow,[/b] into which DL will not feed.  The current program should not be relocated when there are other options to reduce the KG overcrowding.

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You talk pyramids and Kent Gardens?  How about 18 pyramids feeding the FLI excluding Mclean and Langley [2 that woud have base elementary schools where students live NE,NW, east of Kent Gardens]?  Move out base school walkers to accomodate students from pyramids ranging from  Marshall to Robinson, South County or out towards Dulles Airport?

P 93 of the last CIP has herndon pyramid design and program capacity, enrollment, trailer and modular counts.  Some schools have open program capacity and Herndon and Hutchison ES are really over cap.  Dranesville got a tail from Herndon [?].  The tail is between Clearview and Herndon.  Most Herndon pyramid elementary schools need preK and FCPS should do administrative boundary changes for residences that get FCPS transportation.

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