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The district is proposing an East/West division of the county for assignment to option schools for immersion and IB while county-wide schools remain for Campbell, ATS, Montessori.  That would mean some families in N. Arlington that want immersion would have to send their kids to Claremont in S. Arlington (rather than current option of Key in N. Arlington) and actually share classrooms with more poor and/or brown-skinned children.

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Key is already about 50-50 Hispanic kids and non-Hispanic kids. That's on purpose, to try to have half the kids be primary-language Spanish and half the kids primary-language English, for true dual immersion. Parents who send kids to Key aren't trying to avoid having their kids in classrooms with poorer and/or Hispanic kids.  Some parents (though certainly not all) who send kids to ASFS from the Key zone are trying to avoid that, I know from conversations we had before sending our kid to Key. Changing this zone to Claremont instead of Key won't affect that (though I don't have a big problem with sending this zone to Claremont as part of an all-over East-West realignment, other than the fact that Key is far closer to us and therefore more convenient).

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I thought Key was more like 35 percent non-Hispanic.  Not sure.[/quote]

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