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I think you're missing PP's point about equity. The problem with letting immersion programs get out of balance in favor of English speakers is that it worsens the trend of UMC kids fleeing higher-FRL schools, worsening inequity at those schools.

You do realize that most of Key's English speakers are from N Arlington? And if you're going to throw that argument agaisnt immersion, I hope you're advocating for the end of ATS too?

But we've been through this before--even if option schools were abolished tomorrow, it would not be enough to create a balanced enrollment in SA due to the concentration of AH there.

That's not what I'm saying at all! I think we should keep our option schools and strive for the immersion programs to achieve the 50/50 balance of their model. My only point was that if APS considers letting more English speakers into an immersion program without a proportionate increase in Spanish speakers, then it matters where those English speakers would be coming from. If their neighborhood assignments are to lower-FRL schools, then that's less of an equity problem than if they're higher-income kids coming from higher-FRL schools.[/quote]

So rich kids can go to immersion, but middle class kids who live in South Arlington and can't afford to move to North Arlington can't go to immersion because its too important that there be 1 semi-wealthy kid in each classroom so that the 25 ESL kids can benefit from their presence?  Did I get that right?

As mentioned before there are not enough high income kids in some of these South Arlington schools to positively impact the overall learning environment there, even if option schools didn't exist.  Those kids get lost because their needs are not met in the school and they end up being educationally behind their peers at other schools due to all resources going to the non-English speakers.

Pretty sure that banning the 5 high income kids in a high FRL school from going to an option school doesn't create equitable solutions for those 5 kids or for the other 100 kids in that school who are supposed to be magically benefitting from their presence.

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JFC. You seem more interested in strawmaning than listening, so I'm leaving this alone.[/quote]

And the options allow in about 10% of applicants so those fancy high income kids in FRL schools do what? Go where? [/quote]

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