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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In which case, that data would support a premise that those Arlingtonians value neighborhood schools over lottery ones unless they are highly conveniently located.  ESOL is in all schools so this is not about throwing out the Spanish speakers.[/quote]

There seems to be a misperception that the main purpose of Immersion is to educate Spanish speakers in their native language.  This is really not the main thrust of the program.  The idea is to teach the native Spanish speakers English and the native English speakers Spanish.  The end-goal is that the kids are effectively bi-lingual.  This should happen naturally for the native Spanish speakers, since they are exposed to so much English anyway, but the Immersion program can both accelerate that process as well as provide additional substantive academic support in Spanish.  I suspect that the English-language side of Key will remain full, but we shall see. The one annual event at Key which will definitely change is the annual Halloween parade, where the kids dress up and go trick or treating through many of the businesses at Courthouse.  That won't happen at any of the proposed sites.[/quote]

Neighborhood school Key will continue to do that, most likely. [/quote]

In much less diverse form.[/quote]

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