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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real answer is because they want to try to acquire native speaker families to support their immersion model and they know if they are in the common lottery every white gentrifier will mindlessly click the button to add them to their list. 
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I know this is the reason stated. Does anyone have any data on this to suggest if it still holds true? [/quote]

I believe it. Unlike a Powell or Bancroft which are neighborhood schools with Hispanic populations, how else will Lamb be able to have a balance? Gentrification isn’t likely to support the dual-language model.[/quote]

Dont forget about Bruce Monroe-also a DCPS spanish immersion.   BM is about 70% spanish dominant.  And honestly its unfair that neighborhood kids get shut out in preschool because they are english dominant.  [/quote]

BM dips pretty deep into its Spanish-dominant OOB list to fill their self-imposed 70% Spanish-dominant quotas, while the English-dominant 3 year-olds born a block away are waitlisted and told "see you in Kinder! Or not! We don't care! We have a mission and you're not it!" Meanwhile, they're having to combine classrooms in older grades because they're so seriously underenrolled in 5th (and 4th?). [/quote]

I was waitlisted and fine with it.  We got a spot somewhere else.  There is just to way to maintain enough Spanish speakers without the preference, and without the Spanish program the school would not be as appealing.  Free preschool should be for those who truly need it, and others can have space if there is room.  [/quote]

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