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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what is interesting and seems unsustainable about is that it is a tightly geographically bounded school on the one side, with a high-income mostly white population, and it used to have a geographically proximate Spanish I speaking population.  Since that population has moved further away, Oyster has taken on an odd half-bilingual-magnet configuration but only for the side of the school the starts off Spanish speaking.  For inbounds upper class parents the school is a right, for everyone else it's a couple of seats in a good school if your child speaks Spanish.  And the dynamic of who get those Spanish reserved seats is competitive due to overall limited quality in the City.[/quote]

Adams Morgan, Mt. Pleasant and Columbia Heights are all geographically proximate to Oyster (all less than 2 miles away).  These also happen to be neighborhoods with large Spanish speaking populations (especially Mt.P and CH).  Both Bancroft and Marie are over 60% Spanish speaking Hispanic, and MR is within easy walking distance of Oyster.  Do you honestly believe that many of those parents would find it much more difficult to get their child to Oyster if offered a seat?  Unfortunately, many of those available seats are being stolen by English speaking families.  The solution is not to make Oyster a de facto charter school with lottery admission for all.  Instead, the principal needs to ensure that the integrity of the SD lottery is preserved.  Otherwise, Oyster will lose the demographic mixture that makes it so attractive to so many.[/quote]

So if they are so close they can walk, why not put some areas wit spanish speakers inboundary? Seems like the luxury of being inboundary being reserved for only some folks as is currently set up.[/quote]

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