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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why everyone is saying move ATS south, and not Key. 
The Spanish speakers are in South Arlington. 
Barcroft elementary should be converted to immersion. [/quote]

Not all are. Buckingham is in North Arlington, and it's one of the densest Latino populations in Arlington. If Key moves S, it can't be moved too close to Claremont or too far W because the Immersion division is E/W rather than N/S, again, to balance English/Spanish speakers and to encourage economic diversity. It might make sense to move Key to Barett. They'd have hundreds of Spanish speaking kids in the walk zone at that location. [/quote]

Barrett has a pretty good walk zone.  But ATS is less than a mile from Barrett, and doesn't have a good walk zone.  Moving Key to the ATS location makes a lot of sense, and would make immersion easily accessible for the large spanish dominant population clustered in the area.

In terms of the E/W N/S divide- APS is very quietly redrawing this boundary.   It can't be to close to Claremont, true- but it could move west.[/quote]

How could they possibly fit the Key students at ATS?  ATS is too small.

And I’m not defending ATS. I think it should just go away and transition to a neighborhood school. But, it isn’t big enough for the immersion programs. [/quote]

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