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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t see the point of switching Carlin springs and Campbell. Both are small schools. Carlin springs is not much bigger than Campbell [/quote]
Carlin Springs if 585 capacity v. Campbell's 436.  I'd consider 150 students significant.  Plus, there is a lot of open green space on the Kenmore site.........[/quote]

The thing is, all schools are choice schools. If Randolph, Barcroft, Drew, etc aren't at capacity now, what makes the staff think they ever will be? People vote with their feet. Shifting things around to take advantage of space at schools UMC families will avoid is foolish. It's why Henry and Oakridge are so overcrowded. [/quote]

All Arlington schools are good. Haven’t you heard?[/quote]

So what’s the solution? Move immersion 2 south as well? Move ATS south? [/quote]

I’ve been saying make Barcroft and Randolph and Carlin Springs immersion schools for years. Cater to the immigrants and give the middle class a reason to want to be there. Make those neighborhood schools immersion schools. [/quote]

Why don't we just make them Spanish schools where everything is taught in Spanish and complete the segregation of Latinos and Hispanics from everyone else?  geez.  
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What a stupid remark. I’m sorry you are so uncomfortable with our immigrant communities.[/quote]

I'm not - my white middle class kids have spent the past 8 years "with our immigrant communities."  I was being sarcastic in response to the previous comment to make all three of the highest ELL/FRL schools - all adjacent neighborhood schools on the west end of south Arlington - immersion and to "cater to the immigrants and give the middle class a reason to want to be there."  Like the middle class all wants an immersion program  and that none of us middle class families have reason to want to be with all those immigrants without some academic gimmick.  If our school had been immersion, we would have sought something else.  Why not say "make Tuckahoe, McKinley, and Nottingham immersion and give immigrant families reason to want to be there"?  [/quote]

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