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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree that the lottery, as structured, would negatively impact and diminish access to a whole slew of families who move into the county too late to participate in the lottery who otherwise would be prime candidates for the program. One of my frustrations watching this process is that Claremont and Key really do have a different enrollment dynamic, and much of the impetus to change things with Key has almost nothing to do with there being a need for change with Key's boundaries.  It is driven more by a combination of Claremont's enrollment patterns (where surrounding neighborhoods seem to not like their local school option and they choose immersion to escape rather than out of a love for immersion, which creates an unnatural increase in the demand for immersion within the Claremont boundaries) and people's anger at the way ASFS transfers are managed.  I get the need to level the playing field for choice schools, but the inability to register late for spanish speaking families who move in across the street from Key - at least that aspect of the proposed lottery system seems like a bad change, not a good change.[/quote]

If you are correct, that spanish speaking families that register in the weeks before school, can't get in- then it is a bad change.  That's not how I read the policy however- I read it as saying that 50% of the seats are set aside for Spanish speaking kids- so the only way late registrants aren't getting in is if 50% of the seats are already taken, a prospect that seems unlikely- and if it happens should result in a 3rd immersion school.

I don't think the policy changes were driven by Claremont- although Claremont's admissions are some of the most insane.  You are currently guaranteed admission if you come from Abingdon, Oakridge or Hoffman-Boston.  THose are three of the strongest South ARlington elementary schools.  Oakridge and Hoffman-Boston aren't even close to Abingdon.  It made no sense to prioritize kids in those school zones.  [/quote]

You got guaranteed admission if you were zoned for Drew too because drew shares zoning boundaries with Hoffman-Boston (which I realize this isn't in the policy book, but that is how it works). [/quote]

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