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So what's the best solution in general?

NP - but I think it’s Immersion to Carlin Springs to break up the poverty and open up neighborhood seats at both ASFS and Key. If someone was really concerned about high poverty native Spanish speakers I don’t see why they wouldn’t support this. 
This.  Honestly, the only pocket of “walkable” Spanish speakers to asfs is in Woodbury park.  They are currently bussed to both asfs and key.   There are much larger groups of native Spanish speakers in other parts of the county.  Most of the farms kids in the key/asfs zone are Asian.  
That’s off the table unless key really pushes for it.  We basically all told the staff to F off last spring when they tried to present rational arguments for moving the immersion programs.  [/quote]

I agree with this.
Why won't the current Key community support it?
A few different reasons-
1.Last Spring they absolutely had their heads in the sands about the reality of the situation and were confident that they were be able to unite and advocate and keep Key from moving at all.  So they weren't really open to considering other options- or quite frankly thinking about whether a location move could be good for immersion as a whole.  Whenever anyone suggested this they quickly hit back with- so open a 3rd immersion school at Carlin Springs, there's clearly the demand for it.
2. Moving Key immersion to Carlin Springs will probably not work for most of the families currently at Key.  The reality is that people chose Key b/c of the location.  They may have also liked the immersion aspect, really wanted it for their children- but ultimately it was at a location that worked for them.  A lot of them work in the Rosslyn/Courthouse corridor.  Or they commute downtown via metro and can drop their kids at Key and get on the metro at Courthouse, etc.  Getting to and from Carlin Springs for extended day pickup is a totally different animal.  Its not far from Ballston (and thus should work for the spanish dominant families in Buckingham) but for a lot of Arlington it would mean reverse commuting to get to school, then going back to work.  Most two parent working families don't feel like they have that much margin in their schedule.  Now of course I am talking about the upper middle class families currently at Key.

Should either of those reasons carry the day?  Well I would say no- especially given that we are talking about a long term switch a few years down the road- but I wouldn't be surprised if people opt for 'keeping the community together' by moving en masse to ASFS rather than moving as far as Carlin Springs.  While I'm sure a few people will switch to ASFS if the schools swap, I would be surprised if it was that many.   [/quote]

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