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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immersion is more about a school within a school for SES mixed areas than pure academics. It is an opt in program for parents who want to opt out so to speak. Most kids don’t come out anywhere close to bilingual anymore than kids who take a few years of any language in school. And that is what most studies show.

It is naïve and disingenuous to act simply educationally principled and when the side of the population you are fighting to opt out from objects and are able to see through the BS that expanding the program is tantamount to asking for the school to enforce through policy a reproportioning of the student body. Less “those kids” and more upper SES language and parents please!

That said there are many, many legitimate reasons most Families don’t want those types of kids and parents around and in a perfect it would be wise for those familes to structurally address their value add to society. But this isn’t a perfect world and they have to go to school somewhere.

Truth is most people with money either consciously or subconsciously try and create places like Bethesda, Georgetown and North Arlington when they move in. The poor will be mostly pushed out eventually. This is just what that process looks like because it will never be quick enough. They can’t argue that so it is “dam it, my baby needs to learn Chinese”. Sure Bryce does  :roll: [/quote]

No one in DC is trying to recreate North Arlington.[/quote]

Not per se but let’s not forget N Arlington boarders DC and the parts directly across from each other have more in common than differences. The commoner was more about rich homogenous enclave tend to be very similar [/quote]

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