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Under the option selected, RCF is being split up (despite the success the school has had with integrating the two programs).  Under the option you want, the RCF families would "get bused off and used as tokens to diversity Westland in a sea of strangers."[/quote]

I'm not sure that's accurate.  I believe, but am not positive, that the Spanish Immersion program is not full of ESOLs, and would guess not as high on the FARMS list.  Therefore the ESOL / FARMS are going to MS#2 and the Spanish Immersion are going to Westland.  No token kids being moved to lilly-white Westland under option 7.

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You are correct that the immersion program's ESOL and FARMs rates are lower than the neighborhood school's rates.  But the immersion program's racial diversity,at least in the lower grades, more closely reflects Montgomery County than what the demographics of Westland will be under Option 7.  The minority immersion kids attending Westland under option 1 will indeed be "used as tokens to diversity Westland in a sea of strangers."  They will be separated from the schoolmates they've befriended over six years and they will be the brown and black faces at Westland.  Even for the children from upper-middle class and affluent black and Latino families, this will be really difficult for them.[/quote]

Agree. All the more reason option 1 is preferable. Keeps RCF together. [/quote]

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