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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Above is one of the reasons why I am so disgusted with the Key teacher.  She should know better. :([/quote]

It is disgusting.  Unfortunately rather then being called out on her poor behavior- she is getting accolades from former Key administrators with them talking about how proud they are of her.   
The Key folks have entirely lost all sense of perspective- they view this as an existential threat and our treating it as such.  THey don't view any tactic as beneath them- whether its manipulating the low income folk they are purportedly arguing for- altering objective facts, etc.
Here is the real threat- they have not managed to convince their low income Hispanic community that immersion is 'worth it'.  They are not interested in actual solutions to hypothetical problems- e.g. busing kids to extended day at Key- because they deeply fear that if given the choice between staying at the Key neighborhood building, vs going somewhere else- many of those families are going to choose Key neighborhood.  Not because they can't make going to the ATS site with accommodations work -because they don't want to- they just don't care that much about attending an immersion school.  The more 'friendly' the Key neighborhood school is to them (e.g. bilingual office workers etc.) the less likely those families are to follow immersion.  So the Key boosters (beyond those who just personally don't want to move) are desperate to block the move and not think about solutions.
Many of them think that the low-income hispanic community is better off in immersion (and full disclosure- I agree with them).  But I also think they have freedom of choice- and their choices need to be respected.  [/quote]

I am also hearing from key parents who were at Key in winter /spring 2018 when the first hints of school moves started that Key administration prior to 2017/when neighborhood preference was eliminated weren’t differentiating the true English learners from students of Latino ethnic households/backgrounds who lived in English speaking homes when tracking and documenting the school population. And that they are still counting kids from these homes where English is the dominant language as part of their Spanish speaking population.

I saw the Key teacher post that she and others have to
canvas various public places (Glebe Market) to get enrollees for the Spanish speaking seats. This is because the housing development they keep mentioning as super impacted by move has its own staff and help to get those who want to enroll immersion in. County staff is in affordable developments weekly, they have afac there weekly, with mentor programs, skills workshops ect. The fact that they keep claiming these folks will be most negatively impacted is a load of crap. It would be Residents who are Spanish speaking who don’t live in a development with this programming who are most impacted and harder to reach and also less likely to live in what is generally a more expensive area than that around the ATS site. Moving to the ATS site will put them in a community with more Spanish speaking residents or closer to these residents who live outside of our few large affordable housing apt buildings. And that likely the only area of true growth left for Spanish immersion. [/quote]

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