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Im a Key parent and I hadn’t even heard about this proposed building swap.  Is this really being considered, or is it one of a million proposals that will amount to very little?[/quote]

They have to do something, because with the change in transfer policy they have created a zone with 850 kids and no neighborhood elementary school in the boundary. One option is to redraw boundaries around ASFS and the other option is to make Key a neighborhood school by moving immersion elsewhere. Either way people get very angry. [/quote]

No way would I be “angry” if Key became a neighborhood school.  Spanish immersion is played out.  It’s like time traveling to 2009.[/quote]

Funny, the 2,000+ Immersion families feel differently. But good luck swaying the SB to your way of thinking[/quote]

Most of Claremont immersion is people escaping underperforming schools not a drive for immersion. Many kids are in Key b/c it is their neighborhood school and just easier for the parents. And it’s popular for parents that speak Spanish since it caters to them; we have a large Mongolian population too, should we build a program that just caters to them?  We don’t have the space or luxury for immersion where it is now, unclear if there is space anywhere for that full population [/quote]

They aren't doing away with Immersion. Five option schools now, five option schools will remain after this process. If they move Immersion, it will displace somebody's neighborhood school. And from a transportation/density of students standpoint, that might make sense.

As to your point about Immersion "catering" to a certain population, what is your damage? If it's better for the Spanish-speaking families, while ALSO providing a benefit (a second language) to English-speaking families, isn't this a win-win? I'm not an Immersion parent but we strongly considered it, because it's increasingly important that English-speaking students become bilingual. And if it also helps the long-term fluency of Spanish-dominant kids, that is just the icing on the cake. We're hopeful that FLES and MS and HS language courses will be enough to make fluency in Spanish possible for our kids, even though we didn't go the Immersion route, because they're going to need it. This is not a luxury, it's educating kids for the reality of the future which is upon us. The sooner we Anglos realize this and get on board, the better it will be for everyone. [/quote]

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