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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last I checked, if you start elementary in O-A, there is not English-only backup. If you choose to leave O-A, your assigned school, you have to apply by lottery. Preference would be based on proximity to the MS.

Where is it stated that SWWFS is backup? The DCPS site has conflicting info about O-A feeding to Wilson vs Roosevelt. Cardozo idea was shut down.

Vote for Catania and you don't have to worry about being assigned to a lower-performing school.

A vote for Bowser means it all goes back to the table and nobody knows who's going to be at said table and Bowser has never set foot inside Oyster as far as I know.[/quote]

You should read the implementation plan that was released on Halloween.  Under that plan, FS-SWW is now Oyster's official English-school alternative.  Wilson is still Oyster's IB high school.  All Oyster graduates have a right to attend Wilson.  However, if you would like to continue the dual language program, Oyster graduates also have a right to attend Roosevelt.   [/quote]

Yes, this is all correct.

This is happening for all dual language schools, but is especially good for Oyster. It has been hard in recent years to maintain the 50/50 native speaker split, because almost all of the new arrivals in the Oyster district are English-dominant. This means that for every IB English dominant who arrives, Oyster has to find a Spanish dominant from OOB. This is leading to gradual crowding (and I think it is not even 50/50 now - maybe 65% English dominant? There is a document about this problem on the school website if you are very interested.) The DME did two things to address this. First, expand the Oyster boundary to include an area which provides some more Spanish speakers (although a lot of it is pretty gentrified), and second, give an attractive English-only option which may be of interest to some IB families and will reduce the need to bring in more Spanish speakers via OOB to maintain the ratio.

None of the other dual language schools has an explicit ratio policy. 
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