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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:36 demonstrates exactly why all DCPS dual language programs should be city-wide lottery schools.

Dual language programs should not be "neighborhood" by right schools with 50% OOB students because the building is not located where most people speaking the target language can afford to live.

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As DC continues to become more expensive, many Hispanics will move to more affordable neighborhoods. Are you suggesting that dual immersion schools with a small number of IB Spanish speakers should pick up and move to neighborhoods with a larger Spanish speaking population?  If so, that would be an extremely expensive, inefficient and stupid thing for DCPS to do.

Or DCPS can continue to do what it has done at Oyster.  Oyster’s native English speaking students are overwhelmingly IB.  It’s Spanish dominant lottery pretty much functions like a citywide lottery.  Oyster’s native Spanish speaking students are willing and able to commute from all over DC.  This system works for Oyster, and it should and will remain in place. If you want your child to attend Oyster, you need to be a native Spanish speaker, or you need to save up to move IB.  [/quote]

+1.

And let me add that there's plenty of inbound Spanish-dominant families like us, who have made the sacrifice to live in an expensive apartment nearby so our kids can attend the school.

It's funny to me when OOB English-parents like first one above somehow believe they are more entitled than us to[b] tell us how to run this quite unique school. [/b]Go fix your own problems folks, not create new ones.[/quote]

You don't run it. DCPS does, under mayoral control, and we all get to elect the mayor. OA is part of a school system, not a standalone. If you want an independent school, send your kid to an independent (private) school. [/quote]

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