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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s the county’s fault for concentrating affordable housing in certain areas, rather than spreading it out.

Nothing changes till that does, ‘cause ain’t nobody going to go for busing all over the place.[/quote]

exactly, the choice school debate is just a distraction by people who don't like choice schools. [/quote]

Check out the agenda for tonight's School Board meeting. APS is planning to make MPSA a lot larger.  Look at the who attends HB in a new building, AT is getting a new building and now MPSA. These are the least diverse option schools in APS and making them larger will make inequity in SA schools worse. [/quote]
The Spanish immersion programs support diversity and inclusion by their very nature.

HB allocates seats by elementary school with very few seats per school, so doesn't move the needle in any significant way.

This conversation seems to be about the other programs with Montessori, ATS and Campbell being the primary targets.
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You must be an Immersion parent.  Agree with PP that serving a lot of Hispanic kids doesn't mean diverse. And most of those Hispanic kids are from wealthy Spanish-speaking families. [/quote]
That's not what the data shows.  The programs are above Arlington's FRL average and draw students from N Arl to Gunston and Wakefield.  And while I agree that Hispanic is only one type of diversity, the programs go beyond just teaching students of a certain ethnicity by incorporating a great deal of cross-cultural education along with a second language.  [/quote]

Close to 60% of the immersion students are Hispanic. I don't know what their FRL rate is but neither school is title I but looks like it's mostly middle class Spanish speaking families going to immersion.  Just another option that is mostly benefiting kids who already have alot of advantages and claiming it's better for the poor kids. [/quote]
So your objections are that the schools don't explicitly cater to the least affluent segment of Arlington, but are closer to the county averages?  Because Hispanic folks are a traditionally advantaged group and aren't subject to wide spread discrimination?  Because many immersion students haven't signed up to be bused across the county to school with lower stats in order to learn a second language?  So your solve is to end immersion to increase diversity and inclusion in Arlington?  Such nonsense.[/quote]

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