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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a coincidence that the Immersion topic is being raised for ward 7 or even ward 8.  In 10 years, ward 7 and 8 will not be the same. Big stuff is happening. Real Estate and renting is less expensive, Saint Elizabeth Campus project, Skyland Towne Center, projects popping up all over Benning Road. I think that Immersion is one way to attract new families into the District. You have all these thing. Affordable homes for new families, real shopping and entertainment centers, and finally schools that have a wonderful immersion program. The city is setting the stage for new folks to move right in. I don't think Spanish is a good option. If you want to attract new people, you need something to hook them in. Japanese and Korean are good options to me. [/quote]
If this is a charter school, the fact that it's located in Ward 7 will do absolutely nothing to make it accessible to Ward 7 residents. They'd be competing in the lottery with everyone else. You're making it sound like a neighborhood school and it just isn't.

If I was looking for a house in the city, I'd be looking for actual quality schools, not something that's offering a token exotic language with no real use. [/quote]

While I totally agree with your 2nd point, I think you're overestimating the number of non-Ward 7 parents who would shuttle their kids to Ward 7 every day.  Even though there are absolutely parents who do the reverse shuttle (Wards 7 and 8 to other parts of DC), the incentive is arguably stronger because there are so few good schools in 7 and 8.  But parents who have a more decent IB option (even if they're not excited about it all the way through 5th grade) are much less likely to compete to travel to Ward 7 for this, so most likely it WILL be much like a neighborhood school.  At least in the beginning... after a couple of years a school that pics an actual in-demand language (like Mandarin or Spanish) might very well start to have a waitlist and not be as accessible by local families.

Just to be clear, it's all still about a lottery, but if only local families are picking the school because of its location, it becomes much like a neighborhood school.  Until it's so popular it's not anymore.[/quote]

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