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Dominion Hills and Madison Manor are just going to have to deal with riding a bus to Tuckahoe or Ashlawn.  They really aren't that special.[/quote]

+1.  I live a couple blocks from ATS but we didn't get a lottery slot so guess what, my kids ride the bus a mile + west to Ashlawn.  [/quote]

So now you know how the families whose houses face McKinley feel. [/quote]

Just ask the kids near Key who didn't get in. I'm sure they can tell you all about it. [/quote]
Everyone who applied to Key this year got in, that is part of the issue. They are getting few Spanish speakers and this year they didn't even have enough English speakers from the waitlist to fill the spaces in Kindergarten.[/quote]

They didn't even have enough English speakers? Wow. The Key lobby certainly isn't disclosing that.

So are the K classes undersubscribed? [/quote]

The school is still over 100% capacity. I think the takeaway is that there is clearly NOT demand for a 3rd immersion program like they keep talking about making, from English or Spanish speakers. Also, they can cry all they want about how the lottery has cut down their Spanish speaker numbers, but it's not true. They only got 35 K applicants for Spanish spots because the location and program are not attractive to native Spanish speakers in Arlington today in the year 2020. It's not really clear whether the numbers will go up at the ATS location, but I think it's pretty obvious they will stay down if the program doesn't move.[/quote]

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