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Is this good or bad for Kenmore (for the non-immersion crowd)?

[b]I think it’s a non-issue as long as it doesn’t mean they take a lot of the higher SES planning units out of the Kenmore boundary[/b] to make room for the program. I think they shouldn’t redo the Kenmore boundary by much, unless and until the new location proves itself as more desirable, necessitating more seats. I remember when they talked about moving immersion previously, and they didn’t think it required a simultaneous boundary tweak. Kenmore is still below capacity, so seems like they shouldn’t need to move many or any PUs at this time, especially since we have no idea how this will affect people’s plans for immersion in MS.[/quote]
 
Whelp buried on page 154 of the Pre-CIP report they have a draft map and they are in fact moving about 2/3rds of the planning units north of Rt. 50 to Swanson. So basically moving most of the higher SES units out.  And splitting Arlington Forest. Probably doesn't bode well for the non-immersion kids.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2023/06/Pre-CIP-Report-2024-2033-Finalv2.pdf
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This is freaking terrible. They’re splitting up a bunch of neighborhoods and even taking the walk zone to move the program in? Or is it to “fill” the N MS more? Damn it, Kenmore has to take it on the chin for others with all those extra buses and making their disadvantaged population even more so? F*** this! Leave the current Kenmore boundary alone and move Immersion to one of the schools with space. [/quote]

Would it really kill the program to move it to WMS? That seems like the obvious solution. Move Montessori there too while they are at it. [/quote]

I don’t see why it would. And maybe there’d be a smidge more diversity, too. It’s an option, not a right. [b]If people will travel to Gunston, I don’t see why they wouldn’t travel to WMS[/b]. And it would stop some of these large cascading boundary changes, or make them less drastic. But it’s too easy a solution. Same as why Immersion or ATS wasn’t just moved rather instead of sending all McKinley to Cardinal. [/quote]

It changes which people are willing to pursue the program. It's mostly the farther northern parents not willing to travel to Gunston. Move it to WMS and it will be the farther southern parents and the Latino parents who believe their children will not be "comfortable" at a far wealthier and almost all-white middle school in north Arlington. You'll get more white north Arlington families willing to continue from elementary and lose south Arlington and the native Spanish speaking families the program depends on.[/quote]

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