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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Through legal means, no.[/quote]

This is simply not true. You can request a different school if you meet established criteria.[/quote]

Correct, but "I read on the internet that the school is majority Black/brown" is not one of the established criteria.

I mean, can you imagine the OP trying to fill out the COSA form and having that reviewed by the (majority Black) central office folks? [/quote]

OP here- just going through the comments and my child is Black. I would love for him to go to a very diverse school. The issue I foresee is him not being able to communicate with peers like he would anywhere else. He is moving cross country (very hard for a sensitive 9 yr old) and doesn’t know anyone, the last thing I want is for him to not be able to make friends because the whole school speaks Spanish to one another at free times. The majority Spanish speaking schools in CA ARE like that.[/quote]
I work at a demographically comparable school in another district and English dominates on the playground, even among kids who have parents who speak almost no English[/quote]

+1 There's this myth that Spanish speakers are unique from every other wave of immigrant, but my experience is that waves of immigrants are pretty similar. My grandmother spoke mostly Italian and went to mass 4 times a week until the day she died, but my dad grew up as American as baseball and Ford Mustangs. He certainly wasn't speaking Italian on the playground. [/quote]

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