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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]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]

You know this isn't all about you, right? There are kids in this program from all over the county, including some who could walk to WMS or who would have a shorter bus ride or equal bus ride to WMS.[/quote]

Uh. Where did I say it was about me. The previous poster said that EVERY student is closer to WMS. But that isn't true?

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