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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About moving the immersion schools close to the spanish speakers. You all make an assumption (as does the county) that the immigrants who live in the county's lower income housing are spanish speakers. A larger percentage are not.

My kid was at Claremont and a larger percentage of the spanish speakers were middle or upper middle class. They are educated professionals. That is why both Key and Claremont may be 50% spanish speakers, but not 50% free and reduced lunch. At a PTA meeting with a SB member, it was made very clear that if the SB wants more lower income families, it needs to educate those families about the options and why dual immersion is good for them. Many immigrants DO NOT WANT IMMERSION. They want their kids to learn english asap. 
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Yes people seem to like making assumptions about immigrants.

1) Not all immigrants are Spanish speakers. We have a large non-Spanish speaking immigrant population in Arlington. No one cares about their existence.
2) Not all immigrants want their children to be in. Spanish immersion school. This can be either because they want their kid to learn English ASAP or they are interested in teaching their children a second language, but they want that language to be something other than Spanish.
3) Many immigrants in Arlington are upper middle class. Many of these immigrants are they same people who take their kids to language immersion schools[/quote]

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