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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dumb question, because I just started paying attention after that thread blew up on AEM -- why can the Latinx families living near Key not send their kids to a neighborhood school at Key if a walkable school with aftercare is important? Wouldn't Key still be there? Why is the immersion part so important? Plenty of other Latinx kids in Arlington don't go to immersion schools/would have one closer if it moved somewhere else. What am I missing? [/quote]

The achievement gap is much lower for immersion and studies show that Hispanic kids do better over their school career if they do immersion In elementary (just the messenger here)[/quote]

OK, thanks[/quote]

APS does know that once a student is sufficiently proficient in English (regardless of their native language), they begin to catch-up and do well relative to their non-ELL classmates.  So, it makes sense that kids in immersion are becoming more proficient in English AND learning content in their native tongue -- thereby not being so far behind the whole way through.

Immersion is still a choice and therefore a "self-selected" program like people keep pointing out about ATS.  It's the language acquisition that makes immersion beneficial in regard to the achievement gap.  The Key community is arguing that all of its instruction and supportive services and its "welcoming environment for immigrants" will be denied to all of the families who cannot or do not want to make the move.  The immersion instruction will be gone if they don't move with the program; but the welcoming environment already exists in our neighborhood schools in this County and the supportive services and food pantry and whatever else can be implemented at Key as a neighborhood school, too.  Key acts like no other community provides for its minority students or for its poor families.  That's not true in the least.

So, the answer to your question is:  They CAN go to a neighborhood school at Key.  There is absolutely NO reason they CAN'T.

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