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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is your reminder to write a quick email to Engage and the School Board if you want them to vote yes on school moves. You know these clowns are trying to snow them with fake info all day every day. [/quote]

Um, no, I was told that this particular issue is one in which white parents in Arlington are called upon to amplify the voices of parents of color. Who are all in agreement that Key should stay, as that is best for the[b] brown children of Arlington[/b]. ALL OF THEM. [/quote]

Is this satire?[/quote]

Has to be. [/quote]

The bit about "white parents in Arlington are called upon" is a quote from AEM. The rest is presumed.[/quote]

Also note that we are being asked to take the word of a bunch of white parents, and one minority teacher- all of whom have a personal stake in this- that they speak for 'families of color.'  We should take this over the views of our black bilingual superintendent who has a system wide view, and who started an immersion school (Claremont.)[/quote]

I wish we could hear directly from the different EL communities around the county.

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+1  I think the only reference I've seen to actually asking the ESOL community what they want in regard to immersion was staff said at some point that they talked with Spanish-speakers about why they didn't apply to immersion and the main reasons were location and wanting their kids in an predominantly English school.  The fact that Claremont apparently isn't having trouble filling their Spanish-first quota and Key is points to the importance of proximity.  Key likes to complain that it's all because of poor outreach by APS in the switch from neighborhood preference + lottery to lottery only but Claremont did the same thing and doesn't have a problem.  Clearly, Key's location is an issue but the "Key Key" group won't admit that.[/quote]

Why is staff meeting in closed sessions with "some" groups and not others?  Shouldn't the McKinley PTA get the same from the staff that the ESOL community is getting?[/quote]

:roll: The comment on this I'm referring to was a while ago not specifically in reaction to the current moves but was mentioned as affecting thinking over the summer about school locations.

And, FWIW, they did have an open public meeting at Kenmore in Spanish to gather feedback on the current proposal.[/quote]

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