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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue with Immersion to ATS is that it doesn't help break up the high poverty schools along the west Pike. There is literally nothing that can be done to address demographics at Carlin Springs or Barcroft if they are neighborhood schools. There's more flex if the surrounding PUs to either of those schools can be dispersed to multiple schools.

And, in theory, there's tons of potential Immersion/Spanish students right there in the school's neighborhood. APS has all kinds of surveys showing that most parents want a close-by school, even including Spanish-speaking families who we the UMC community think might be better off in an immersion program. So, let's put the program we think will serve them best as close as possible and see how things shake out. ATS is in an okay location for Spanish speakers but probably not closer to them than Barrett already is.

This post, like so many others, seems to misunderstand  the nature of the APS two-way immersion program.  SMH.

I sometimes feel there is someone pulling us by pretending to be from Key, to be as tone deaf as this. Same as the PPs who complained about overcrowding at ATS... can these people be for real??

Again:  immersion is not a safety valve for UMC wealthy people to point to as a means of dispersing “the poors.”[/quote]

In that case, location doesn’t matter so we can put immersion in Nottingham or Tuckahoe. You can’t have it both ways. Either the school is vital to low income Hispanic populations and should bear the western Pike or we are misunderstanding immersion and it doesn’t really matter where it goes. Either way it doesn’t need to stay in Courthouse.[/quote]

Some truth here. Immersion was started at Key BECAUSE the surrounding neighborhood had a large Spanish speaking population. Times have changed, and it makes sense to move the school so that it is more accessible to Spanish speakers. What their income is, is irrelevant. APS has planning unit maps of Spanish speakers, though I can’t put my hands on it at the moment. Anyone have that link?[/quote]

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