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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Discouraging north Arlington parents from sending their kids south isn’t going to create diverse schools that are balanced. There are not enough UMC families in s Arlington to do that. The option schools will just have high farms rates too. Claremont and key are already nicely balanced, at around 40% farms each. That doesn’t mean the schools don’t need more Spanish speakers, but being a Spanish speaker doesn’t mean you are poor![/quote]

There are only 62 transfers to Claremont from North Arlington, and the school is 37% fr/l. I think if both immersion schools move S, they will, over time, become more populated with kids from South Arlington. I bet current UMC families from North Arlington will move with the school. But other than those very committed to the Immersion model, new applicants will probably begin to skew South Arlington. There are more and more South Arlington UMC families every day. Because if you can afford a SFH in South Arlington, you [b]are[/b] UMC. You may not be a 1%er, and maybe you don't [b]feel[/b] like you're UMC because of the HCOL, but you're doing quite well. Not as well as people buying $2.5 million homes over in Bellevue Forest, but let's have some perspective here. [/quote]

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