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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Roslyn has cafs and more on the way. There will be plenty of poor Hispanic kids around the school once queens court opens up.

The issue here is that the county has lots of poor Spanish speaking elementary kids,  many many many more than could ever fit into an immersion school. What, 350 kids per school? There are more than 350 poor Spanish speaking kids within less than a block of Columbia pike. There are more than that (I believe) in barcroft apartments alone. Ismmersion isn’t going to solve anyone’s problems here. [/quote]

I heard that the inhabitants of CAFs tend to not be Hispanic. I don’t know if that’s true or not, APAH doesn’t publish anything. Honestly it doesn’t really matter. Any school in that building will be socioeconomically diverse and the neighborhood seats are needed. Current Key families, who mostly draw from the old Key zone, Taylor, and Long Branch will fight moving because it’s super convenient for them. There’s no compelling reason the program has to be on Key.[/quote]

They also don't want key to move because ... property values. Without immersion, key is basically Barrett.[/quote]
Not true at all.  There’s no neighborhood preference at key.  Why would it moving have any effect on the property values or rent.
A neighborhood school at key would be basically a lot like asfs (since 90% of the school currently lives in the key/asfs boundary).  Pretty diverse, kind of like glebe.  I imagine that there may be more sed kids there since a lot of people won’t move with key, but there are a lot of English learners anyways so I’m not sure it’ll really change it that much.[/quote]

It would have a higher FARMS rate than ASFS (23%). How high depends on how far immersion moves and how they draw the lines between two neighborhood schools at Key and ASFS (if that is what happens). I think 40-50% FARMS at new Key is a real possibility. Glebe, FWIW is at 15%, so not really a good comparison. [/quote]
It’ll be fine— contrary to what they say at school board meetings, no one at asfs is afraid of poor people.  Most people you talk to live in the neighborhood because of schools, specifically because of the diversity at asfs versus taylor.
They will likely draw some very gerrymandered looking boundaries if the FARMS rate for the current key zone is really 40-50%.  New asfs according to aps would have been 5-10% FARMS if they drew a logical boundary (this was one of their arguments for the swap).[/quote]

If both schools become neighborhood, they should definitely gerrymander to even out the FARMS rate between the two. Dumb not to when you have the opportunity at the outset. [/quote]

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