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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, more context on Julie's motives. She just admitted that her resolution is also to preserve the Chinese immersion program, which she obviously owes to her Chinese-American community as a Chinese-American herself.[/quote]

She wanted to preserve the articulation [i]for Potomac[/i] so that those in the bespoke Potomac ES Chinese Immersion program, almost exclusively available only to Potomac residents (unlike other magnet Immersion programs, including the one additional Chinese one at Bayard Rustin), would not have to be separated from their classmates in MS.  Those wishing to continue Chinese Immersion would have to go to Hoover, while the Superintendent's recommendation, as much as it preserves nearly everyting for the wealthiest areas, has Potomac ES changing articulation from Hoover to ([i]gasp![/i]) Cabin John.

To do this, Yang was suggesting creating more of a discontiguous/island situation for other ES communities.  Zimmerman, who abstained on the almost equally self-interested motion that Silvestre put forth, was the only BOE member who voted for it with Yang.  Laura Stewart, who had voted with Yang and Silvestre in support of the latter's earlier motion, abstained on this one.  Silvestre's, of course, was as much for the benefit of the WJ families now horrified by the prospect of being at Woodward with some DCC residents as it was a politically calculated show in "support" of some Wheaton Woods families' proximity concerns.

There are so many additional possibilities that the public has requested, and many that had merit weren't given so much as a comment, much less an info request that resulted in a motion for an option to consider.  Clearly, Yang and Taylor had worked on this together -- one could tell not only from his comments, but from the look on Andrea Swiatocha's face as she helped present it.

Montoya and Rivera-Oven were absolutely correct when they voted against in noting that none of these other thoughts got due diligence.  Wolff voted against, as well, but her stance in doing so was that there had been enough engagement already, and that everyone had had their say :roll:[/quote]

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