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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is utterly ludicrous. How are immersion schools supposed to survive?  They already can only get native speakers via recruitment only, and now that's gone too?  [/quote]

The strong schools will survive, though target language instruction will suffer.  But then who really cares about that in the DC charter realm? Yu Ying has thrived with a handful of native speakers, literally a handful out of 540 students. 
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I know LAMB isn't in the common lottery so this may be moot. But LAMB's Missouri Avenue campus is surrounded by homes and apartment buildings full of native speakers whose children attend Brightwood or Center City PCS on Georgia. If they were to offer this preference it would absolutely increase the percentage of native speakers.

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Even if LAMB was eligible and decided to apply this preference (LAMB parents on this board has mentioned recruiting efforts for the school lottery throughout the neighborhood), all of those apartments are less than .5 miles from their IB school.

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Yes. Many people are having a hard time understanding the second part of the preference (your IB must be >0.5 miles away). LAMB is across the street from Brightwood, so (most, if not all) those surrounding apartments PP is referring to is NOT >0.5 mile from their IB.

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