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[quote=Anonymous]Making Barcroft an immersion school has its own set of issues. Despite proximity to Barrett and Randolph, Barcroft is not "walkable" to these schools. Randolph is across George Mason and the Pike, neither of which can be crossed by young children per APS (esp the Pike). So, low income kids on the south part of the neighborhood who now walk would be bused. Some of those kids currently go to Claremont but APS is wrong if they think all of a sudden all the Spanish speaking kids in that area will suddenly clamor for immersion.

Kids on the north side of the neighborhood would go to Barrett, not Ashlawn, and they would have to take the bus across 50.

In the end, a very walkable school would become very bus-dependent - an those buses would be going through very quiet neighborhood streets.

Barrett has similar demographics to Barcroft and they would not improve with this move because to accommodate Barcroft kids, UMC families from Barrett would be moved to Ashlawn. Randolph's FR/L% would get even worse and UMC families in Barcroft will avoid that school just like Douglas Park parents do. The UMC transfers out of Barcroft as a neighborhood school would not change with this move.

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