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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the deal with this school?  It is in Columbia Heights, yet I was told that in AdMo our in bounds HS is Wilson.  This school has AP, International Bac and French & Spanish programs--sounds like what MV, YY, EWS, and LAMB are trying to accomplish as a secondary school.[/quote]

Except that it doesn't have YY, LAMB, Stokes, and MV as feeder schools.  They are all highly-desirable charters, with rigorous academic programs, and they largely have high SES families (= high expectations, $ support, etc.).  They are all choice schools, and their combined destination school is going to be competitive and highly-desired.

Bell/Col. Heights is a default school.  The language programs exist because of the extremely high ESL numbers, not because there is a high SES collection of families with expectations of high-quality language programs.

Marketing a school (such as Bancroft or Bell) as "Spanish Immersion" in the attempt to co-opt high-SES families is out-and-out fraud, and should be prosecuted as a criminal offense.  (In the opinion of someone who gives a damn about the inferior, larger-scale,

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