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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Immersion have fewer stops than neighborhood schools (hub stops) so the 3 miles for a neighborhood route would take about as much time

Don’t play up the Gunston WMS distance. Gunston is LITERALLY on the edge of the county with Alexandria, so EVERY student will be closer to WMS than Gunston. [/quote]

Um. What? I can walk to Gunston. Williamsburg is 6.2 miles away. You know people live over here right?[/quote]

Sigh. But you don’t live south of Gunston, so you are CLOSER to WMS than Gunston is to WMS (PP measured the distance between Gunston and WMS — that’s the worst case scenario since Gunston is literal edge). [/quote]

Different poster.  You're making no sense.  There are many people who live closer to Gunston than WMS even if they live W, E, or N of Gunston.  I also know many families who live south of Gunston.  Obviously there are many more people between the two but that's a pretty big area with multiple MS too.[/quote]

Gunston is at the edge of the county, how can they live south of it??

Anyways you are being deliberately obtuse. Of course people can live closer to Gunston, but the distance between Gunston and WMS is worst case distance. [/quote]

Gunston is close to the edge of the county but if you look at a map you'll see it isn't literally on the edge.  If you drew a line running E to W from Gunston, you'd have parts of Crystal City, Aurora Hills, Long Branch Creek, Green Valley, all of Shirlington, and even parts of Claremont south, south east, or south west of that line.  You really seem unfamiliar with the area so stop telling those of us who live here what our kids' new commutes would be like and please listen to those of us actually familiar with the area.  Same with the poster claiming traffic in Arlington only runs E to W.  Clearly you've never driven on Walter Reed or George Mason drive during rush hour.[/quote]

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