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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plus the bus to the new location surely will not be free. I believe YY's is around $200/month.[/quote]

And I'm sure a lot of YY parents from NW and the Hill can afford that.  Nice for them, but irrelevant.  If MV is serious about keeping the Hispanic families who live near the current location, they will need to offer a bus service - gratis.  If it's not free, then many families simply can't do it.

Doesn't Potomac Lighthouse offer free bus service?
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Potomac Lighthouse isn't even in the same category as MV.  And I'm not even an MV parent saying that.

MV will have no problem getting people to come to their new location.  If a parent doesn't want to keep their child at MV, there are 800 people behind them on the waitlist who will happily take their place.  Done.[/quote]

You're missing the point entirely.

Potomac Lighthouse serves a lot of low income families, and makes it possible for them to attend by offering a bus service.  Most (though not all) of the native Spanish speakers at MV come from the neighborhood around the school and are lower income.  The school has a wonderful culture as a result of the genuine mix across culture and class lines.  That is a good thing, and worth preserving IMHO.

Unfortunately, the new location doesn't have a similarly large community of native Spanish-speakers to contribute to that lively mix.  If MV is serious about retaining the families who add so much to the community, it's going to need to do something to make that easy for them to stay.  Can they be replaced in number by families who have no problem driving because they have a car?  Sure.  Can they be replaced in number by families who can afford an expensive bus service?  Probably.  But they can't be replaced in kind with families for home Spanish is a native language, and who are sharing their Latin culture - as opposed to learning it.  It sounds like you don't think that loss is a very big deal, but I disagree.  I think it would be a terrible loss, and I'd like to see some effort and outreach to ensure that doesn't happen.

We'll just agree to disagree, m'kay?[/quote]

MV was a charter from day 1, not a neighborhood school, so I doubt that a significant proportion of Spanish-speaking families happened to live next to it. Having said that, any relocation is traumatic, even for such a young charter, so I hope the transition goes well.[/quote]

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