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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also meant to add that the whole idea of building out/trailers for option schools doesn't happen for good reasons. I think people who are not in option programs often see them as quick fixes for short-term student population surges in neighborhood schools. While they absolutely help meet surges within the system, you can't just pop up and dump trailers in options programs. Why? Once you admit students you have to be prepared to host them for the whole journey of the program. If you admit 2X immersion students from K one year because of a demographic surge, you have to then be able to host them through5th or 8th. You don't kick out students later and say "sorry, we only let you in for a year because your neighborhood was crowded."[/quote]

Um...so you're saying you can't expand option schools because you're stuck with the kids all the way through; but you can over-extend a neighborhood school with no definite timeframe for any boundary shifts or additions or new schools being built. That it's not fair to kick-out program kids; but you can kick-out neighborhood kids.

Option schools should not be insurance policies for families to avoid overcrowding. I get the not kicking-out because it means a different curriculum (immersion, for example...ATS, not a different program per se; just what all neighborhood schools should be doing. Montessori and HB, not a huge deal either as far as programs, IMO but others will disagree)  Anyway, I disagree. You don't get to ditch out of your undesired neighborhood school and then also be protected from overcrowding.  [/quote]

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