Anonymous wrote:I would imagine that ultimately, APS will have just one immersion school. The county already got rid of summer school for immersion strengthening. And now, as I understand it, Global Village and Summer Laureate will no longer be offered. Weird stuff.

Honestly, as a county, we have far more kids every year to educate than we expect. I think we do have to cut the fluff and focus on core academics and seats for students. It is not sexy. We also need to eliminate the options programs. It's a distraction to staff, administratively burdensome, "unfair" meaning the option is offered to fewer than the 10% who get offered it. It's expensive too. Bussing alone is ridiculous.

I would imagine that ultimately, APS will have just one immersion school. The county already got rid of summer school for immersion strengthening. And now, as I understand it, Global Village and Summer Laureate will no longer be offered. Weird stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's so interesting that this presentation isn't being discussed at all on AEM. Have they all given up? Are they just asleep?

I'm sure they have seen it and they are not asleep. It just doesn't fit their narrative, and they would rather not draw attention to it. It is a data driven, factual, persuasive presentation. It is very hard with a straight face to call Cintia Johnson, a bilingual, African-American Superintendent, who started Claremont a racist or someone who known nothing about immersion and how this is the death of immersion.

I absolutely think CJ is underestimated and has far more spine or backbone than that useless superintendent who left.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's so interesting that this presentation isn't being discussed at all on AEM. Have they all given up? Are they just asleep?

I'm sure they have seen it and they are not asleep. It just doesn't fit their narrative, and they would rather not draw attention to it. It is a data driven, factual, persuasive presentation. It is very hard with a straight face to call Cintia Johnson, a bilingual, African-American Superintendent, who started Claremont a racist or someone who known nothing about immersion and how this is the death of immersion.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's so interesting that this presentation isn't being discussed at all on AEM. Have they all given up? Are they just asleep?

Either asleep or gathering forces for the final push. They will never give up. In fact, no matter what happens people will stay bitter about it for years to come. There will be "I told you so's" all around!

I think it's so interesting that this presentation isn't being discussed at all on AEM. Have they all given up? Are they just asleep?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all for more seats at ATS.

At ATS (like, the location)? Or for ATS, meaning wherever they fit?

Why do both of you want more seats at ATS?

It has a huge waitlist, why shouldn’t it be a 700 student school and give more kids a chance to get in?

Why not copy their methods and use them at neighborhood schools?

The method is requiring a opt-in lottery for a school the attracts parents who like homework for their kids.

That’s hard to replicate.

We have plenty of homework at our neighborhood elementary school that will satisfy these parents. This is not a differentiated curriculum.

Yep, great for you, but many other APS elementary schools have gotten rid of homework.

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Anonymous wrote:I still don’t get it— what’s wrong with Ashlawn?

There is nothing wrong with Ashlawn other than that people in the McKinley walk zone can’t walk there.

yep now you get it

Also it is south of Wilson and a gateway to Kenmore (for students not walkable to Swanson)...this is making some of the parents *very* uncomfortable.

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Anonymous wrote:I still don’t get it— what’s wrong with Ashlawn?

There is nothing wrong with Ashlawn other than that people in the McKinley walk zone can’t walk there.

yep now you get it

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all for more seats at ATS.

At ATS (like, the location)? Or for ATS, meaning wherever they fit?

Why do both of you want more seats at ATS?

It has a huge waitlist, why shouldn’t it be a 700 student school and give more kids a chance to get in?

Why not copy their methods and use them at neighborhood schools?

The method is requiring a opt-in lottery for a school the attracts parents who like homework for their kids.

That’s hard to replicate.

We have plenty of homework at our neighborhood elementary school that will satisfy these parents. This is not a differentiated curriculum.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all for more seats at ATS.

At ATS (like, the location)? Or for ATS, meaning wherever they fit?

Why do both of you want more seats at ATS?

I'm the second poster, and I don't want more ATS seats.

I do think the ATS program should be as large as any of the other ESs, or possibly larger, because I think a lot of parents (not all of them, and I'm not interested in hearing from offended ATS parents who want me to know that they just lurve ATS for its special, special self) pick it because they don't want their neighborhood schools because of demographics and size.

My kids are out of ES now, but if they were assigned to a school that followed ATS policies, I would be in the awkward position of undermining the teachers every day (I would not require my early ES kid to do homework or insist that my kid play an instrument after 3rd grade, for example).

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all for more seats at ATS.

At ATS (like, the location)? Or for ATS, meaning wherever they fit?

Why do both of you want more seats at ATS?

It has a huge waitlist, why shouldn’t it be a 700 student school and give more kids a chance to get in?

Why not copy their methods and use them at neighborhood schools?

The method is requiring a opt-in lottery for a school the attracts parents who like homework for their kids.

That’s hard to replicate.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all for more seats at ATS.

At ATS (like, the location)? Or for ATS, meaning wherever they fit?

Why do both of you want more seats at ATS?

It has a huge waitlist, why shouldn’t it be a 700 student school and give more kids a chance to get in?

Why not copy their methods and use them at neighborhood schools?

Because a minority of parents want that for their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all for more seats at ATS.

At ATS (like, the location)? Or for ATS, meaning wherever they fit?

Why do both of you want more seats at ATS?

It has a huge waitlist, why shouldn’t it be a 700 student school and give more kids a chance to get in?

Why not copy their methods and use them at neighborhood schools?

You realize that all of the new neighborhood schools are being built with over 700 seats, right? Why should ATS be smaller?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all for more seats at ATS.

At ATS (like, the location)? Or for ATS, meaning wherever they fit?

Why do both of you want more seats at ATS?

It has a huge waitlist, why shouldn’t it be a 700 student school and give more kids a chance to get in?

Why not copy their methods and use them at neighborhood schools?