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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The families being rezoned to Williamsburg would have vigorously defended their right to attend Williamsburg before Hamm opened.  That's where they were zoned historically.  But now it's suddenly too inconvenient?  For a cohort of families with amongst the most resources in Arlington?

Instead they're now asking for a cohort of families with far fewer resources and means to trek across the county for MS?  Most immersion students live in the Gunston/Wakefield boundary.  That's a long way from Williamsburg.  And the program collapses without the Spanish speaking classmates, so that would be the end of it.  All so a few very privileged kids don't have to travel to an excellent MS that was considered their preferred option just a few years ago.[/quote]

Kenmore parents are rightly pissed off about thus, too! We don’t want the immersion program. We have STEAM already and don’t want another program that has its own “vision” disrupting and superseding our existing program and the neighborhood contingent. It’s patently stupid to move immersion here, when there is a population crunch in this corridor already. Move it where there is space, and always will be space due to restrictive housing policy that will take at least a hundred years to unwind. F*** you immersion jerks![/quote]

I do think Kenmore voices are being drowned out in this process. There are a few comments about traffic with a lot of upvotes on ThoughtExchange but I haven’t heard much about Kenmore just not wanting the program and/or not wanting their children to be bumped to other schools.[/quote][/quote]

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