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Np.  I will add that it would be much more difficult to staff 8(!) immersion schools than it is to staff 2.[/quote]

Totally agree. Immersion presents a unique challenge, in that you need fluent Spanish speakers to teach all these classes, especially in the upper grades. Not sure you can maintain the quality over so many schools. I think the Immersion program would benefit from being under one roof at the middle & high school level - somewhere in the middle, geographically convenient for both North & South Arlington families. [/quote]

I agree with this.  The idea of a county-wide program being equally accessible to all students when it is geographically situated on one end or the other is likely to be a flop for the families that are furthest away.  Some of the boundaries they're playing with now already insure that certain "hoods" won't participate.  Just for example, they're proposing to move Jamestown to Claremont.  I'd say relatively few families from Jamestown participate in immersion to begin with, and the only thing I can assume by the new lines is that they're hoping to completely eliminate Jamestown participation - maybe because Jamestown is currently not overcrowded?  [/quote]

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