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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Barcroft apartments is one of the major contributors to segregated schools, but certainly not the only one. If Columbia Hills is allowed a full build out, it will have just as many people, just vertically positioned. Almost every apartment complex along the western Pike is a MARK or CAF.

I still do not see how moving the two immersion schools could allow local Spanish speaking families much more access to the immersion programs in the first several years. Both Claremont and Key are bursting at the seams and neither the Barcroft nor Carlin Springs site can accommodate most of the existing students and the "new" students. The change over will have to happen year to year with the hope that local Spanish speaking families will apply. But even if they do, the school still has to be balanced, so those families will only have access to half of the seats. The remainder will have to go elsewhere. So, when people report that families at Carlin Springs would be happy with immersion, they may soon realize that they no longer have access to that their old school under any program. [/quote]

Hence the point. 
Half need to go, they can’t all stay and have a balanced school. It’s the best option.[/quote]

But they are technically competing with students from the entire county for the Spanish-dominant slots, so there’s no telling how that will actually work out.[/quote]

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