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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, immersion is not ESL, but it requires a 50-50 split between native spanish speakers and spanish learners.  So doesn't it make sense to make it accessible to existing neighborhoods that have significant numbers of native spanish speakers?  You could do this by moving the school wholesale, or you could do this by having 2-3 immersion classrooms (per grade) in schools where the majority of students are native spanish speakers.  It has nothing to do with ESL -- its making a stronger immersion program for the spanish learners (not kids in ESL).  Phase it in so its less disruptive to current families.  There are 12 buses to Key.  Surely some of those families wouldn't mind being bussed somewhere else.  Especially if the community that they will be part of has so many native spanish speaking families that they promote events in a bilingual fashion already.
I understand not wanting to upset status quo for current students, but why not just have a mix of immersion and traditional classrooms rather than having a dedicated school?  They could have incoming grades be mixed at Key for the next five years (2-3 classes immersion, 2-3 traditional), but upper grades remain as is.  Have generous grandfathering at asfs so that you don't have to add classrooms to the upper grades.  It seems like we should be trying to find some sort of a compromise solution like this.  [/quote]

I think it is really unfortunate that the Key parents have refused to engage in this type of creative thinking.  There are lots of workable solutions that could have minimized disruption.  But they took a 'H** no we won't go' approach, aggressively silence voices that suggest compromise, and are willing to manipulate facts to try and make any discussion of a move out to mean that the proponents of it are racist.  They have families who live near Key believing that APS is discussing closing Key, not making it neighborhood. I find this to be despicable.   As per usual, this is being driven by white upper middle class parents.   [/quote]

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