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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard that someone on school board actually started paying attention and that moving Spanish immersion to the HIGHEST percentage, majority Hispanic school (45%), looked a LOT like segregation from the 50s, and would create a school with probably 60% Hispanic student population.

Unclear if it would have affected FARMS ratios — does Immersion run more low income that county average?

It’s one thing to locate near a substantial Spanish speaking population. This goes WAY beyond that and possibly opens up doorway to lawsuits?[/quote]

So are they just not going to move any of the middle school boundaries this year?[/quote]

They either have to do a boundary change or move Immersion elsewhere. Or both.[/quote]

I can't imagine where they'd move Immersion if it's not Kenmore. Transportation-wise, it would make no sense to move it up to Williamsburg.[/quote]

It would take the same number of buses as Gunston. Read the report! [/quote]

The same number of buses, but they would have much longer routes. It's not like the neighborhoods around Williamsburg are sending a ton of kids to immersion. [/quote]

I really don’t think short bus rides for option programs  are the priority, or should be. [/quote]

We live 4.5 miles from our immersiom school. It takes my kids’ bus 30 minutes to get to school. I’d hardly call that short. We’re not even the first stop which means the kids getting on the bus before my kids have a longer ride.  Now apply that timeline to going all the way to Williamsburg.  Williamsburg is 20 miles from Gunston.  Than remember that is just one way.
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I think that you mean that Williamsburg is 20 minutes from Gunston, not 20 miles - I don't think it's possible for any two points in Arlington to be 20 miles from each other. But you are correct that it is very far away and not a reasonable option.[/quote]

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