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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A relatively high performing, economically homogeneous high school can do well with an enrollment of 2700 or more.  That is the case at schools like New Trier in Winnetka.  It won’t be the case at W-L and parents will be increasingly unhappy with how their average kids fall through the cracks there in the future.  [/quote]

With the current demographic balance W-L should do well at 2700 students or 1000 students, or 3,000 students, etc. If the balance were to shift and APS were to rezone more single family home neighborhoods away from W-L to Yorktown to account for population growth in the southern part of the county, then yes, average kids may fall through the cracks. [/quote]

That’s literally what’s happening. They are moving Wakefield units to WL and YHS IB transfers are shrinking— [b]this year there were many rejections in fact.[/b] [/quote]

1.  Not surprised about this. 
2.  How do you know this?[/quote]

If true it’s a shame APS is using IB to reduce overcrowding at Wakefield. The IB program at W-L was not designed for that. The lottery based admissions system was designed to give all 8th graders a fair chance at entry. [/quote]

Hasn’t it always been true that everyone got into IB who survived through the last minute ridiculous waitlist?  Like, they were letting in kids the day before schools started?  Is this going for be the first year they don’t?   If so, is it only YHS kids who are being excluded?  This seems deeply wrong to a handful of kids.  [/quote]

That have space for 400 kids, and YHS is not overcrowded. They are transferring 100 students a year from Wakefield so yes only YHS will be excluded. [/quote]

So if you are an 8th grade kid in Arlington you are guaranteed the option to do the IB program ONLY if you are not zoned for a single HS, Yorktown?  How many kids is that?  I mean, this seems incredibly wrong.

Historically, am I right that all kids who waited it out got in?   For the first time ever, we are preventing a handful of kids from doing some great program they really want because of where they live when most Arlington kids are afforded that option?  [/quote]

What do you suggest? We allow 50 more kids from YHS (4 years impact so say 15 year about) into WL and leave WHS over capacity and YHS under capacity?  Or bus kids from WHS to YHS — probably an hour bus ride. [/quote]

Wait so there are 50 YHS kids still one the WL?   I really doubt that.   I think you saying there are 15 and if we do that for the next three years.

I don’t think we should analyze this question based on what might happen next year, where you are newly enforcing an exclusion to a program.

And why do you think all 15 from YHS are matriculating?   I don’t think the WL this year has worked at all like that.

In a school of 2700, you are worried about addinfg probably ten kids this year who want to do IB on the basis of how the IB waitlist MIGHT work next work next year all because they happen to live in one zone when everyone else in the county is guaranteed a slot?

I want you anonymous poster to sit down with those ten kids.  Seriously.  You are high and mighty on here but they have good and valid reasons for wanting to do the program — just like the other children allowed to participate.  Excluding them based on zoning when everyone else can paticipate and their numbers thus years are de minimis is a really horrible thing.

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