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[quote=Anonymous]I do not understand why you and the APS seem to think that if you put an option school in south arlington all the low income kids will flock to it. It may seem logical .... but it really isn't going to solve the problem.

As far as immersion is concerned, you can put the school at the low income Spanish speaking immigrant's door step and they will not flock to it. They do not understand the value of dual immersion to their child (and neither do most native English speakers either). Those families want their kids to learn English asap. I don't blame them.  APS would need to spend some serious resources to get more of these kids into immersion and they have failed this far. Distance isn't an issue - Claremont is only 5 minutes from columbia pike. We are not talking a 30 minute commute even in Arlington's rush hour.

The reality is that option schools are generally used by white south arlington parents to escape low performing neighborhood schools, mainly Barcroft, Carlin Springs, Drew and Randolph. Just look at the transfer rates for these schools. We were at Claremont for 5 years and I have met way too many parents on both sides of Arlington's socio economic scale, and this is just reality.

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