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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy solution to Bailey's: cancel the magnet program.  If that is not enough, cancel the immersion program.

Two extra programs in a school as overcrowded as Bailey's defies common sense.[/quote]

If you're just considering the numbers, I suppose those programs defy common sense.  But both programs were brought to Bailey's to raise the overall quality of education by diversifying the student body... and for those of you who don't know Bailey's, I'm not exactly saying what you think.  Bailey's is located smack dab between a huge amount of Section 8 housing, largely populated by recent or ESOL immigrant families, and single-family homes in Lake Barcroft which are largely populated by upper-middle-class, native English speakers.  For many years these two populations balanced each other well, but in the last 20 (15? 10?) years the ESOL population grew much, much faster. The imbalance between those two populations led to "white flight" from the school, leaving a student population that had a hard time learning English because there were too few English-speakers around.  These programs are very important to ensuring that Bailey's doesn't just become the kind of school we see in nearby D.C., where the only kids in public school are the ones who can't afford any other option.  In light of that, I don't agree that canceling the magnet and/or immersion programs are good ideas.

This school will need to somehow be split, and a new building will have to be found & renovated, or built from scratch.  I think the SB is examining the Willston Center at the moment.[/quote]

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