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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you very much for sharing this information.  I remain very concerned about the lack of a real vision - let alone any concrete plans - for those of us who are are not in the dual-language feeders.  I have friends in other cities who have shared with me their own experience of being zoned for a school that focused first  - and it seemed foremost - on the dual language program and they had to fight tooth and nail to get equal resources and decent programming for the non-dual language program.  They are/were understandably outraged. I really hope this is not the road we are on.  I am already confused by the language being used: "dual language program" and "neighborhood school."  This seems to imply that the dual language program is not part of the neighborhood school.  I really think the language that DCPS uses to describe the school will have a big impact on family buy-in so such communications should not be considered unimportant.  We are grandfathered into Deal for now but our family is wishing very much for a fantastic non-dual language program at MacFarland.[/quote]

This is where the rubber meets the road; everything you say is exactly right.[/quote]

+1 Based on what I've heard and read so far about how DCPS is pitching and marketing the school, I feel like it's going to end up getting the reputation as "the Latino school" before it even starts and diversity will be virtually non-existent. And if DCPS leaves schools like Truesdall and Raymond with only a fraction of the resources they'll be pouring into MacFarland that would be criminal. My IB school, Barnard for instance, which is not immersion and simply offers some Spanish classes (when my son attended he had a one hour Spanish each week). It is almost equally split between AA and Latino children. So while it's only a guess, I bet half the 5th grade will head to dual Lang MacFarland next year and the other half will go to Raymond, essentially segregating the schools. I realize it theoretically will only be a year or two while MacFarland gets its facility back, but each year of school for a child is critical and establishing MacFarland as a diverse neighborhood school from the start is super important.

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