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[quote=Anonymous]I think the issue people have with the key pta and the key advocates isn’t the fact that the website is in English vs Spanish.  It’s that they have repeatedly portrayed themselves as a refuge for the Latino population in Courthouse and Clarendon, which now the rich white population is trying to rip away.  This is patently false, they know it, yet they keep saying it.  That Washington post article was full of falsehoods— heck the photo in the article of a parent walking their child to school was staged.  I know that family in real life, and they don’t live near enough to the school to walk.  They are nice people, but when you blatantly misrepresent yourself and your community, what you are doing is wrong.  It’s bad for the community as a whole when we are presented with “alternative facts”.  
As people have pointed out, there are large spanish speaking populations elsewhere in the county.  I’m not sure why the compromise someone pointed out at having immersion classrooms throughout the county was such a bad idea.  I think the time of pure option schools has passed— we really need to take a good look at what we mean by “equity”.  Equity is not an hour long forced bus ride just to attend your neighborhood school.   Nor is it having extremely disparate demographics at single schools that in no way mirror our larger county demographics.  Montessori and immersion are great, but if we can’t have dedicated schools for options without it severely effecting education at nearby neighborhoods, we can’t afford to keep them.  Instead, we should either look to having hub locations (all options at the career center for example), or look at having classrooms with a distinct learning model distributed throughout the county.  [/quote]

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