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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many Spanish speaking immigrant kids do not read or write Spanish. There is a significant number on non Spanish speaking kids on the west pike.

So, if immersion is moved to the west pike, you expect low income families to bus their kids all the way to Ashlawn??? Isn’t that just busing???? Take away all the neighborhood schools in the poorest section of town so then you have to bus kids to wealthy north Arlington!!! Isn’t that what the school board and activists have said will NOT happen? Talento will never go for that.

UMC families along the pike would love that option. But not sure Ashlawn can take that many kids. [/quote]

Many U.S.-born English-speaking children do not know how to read or write English when they enter kindergarten. Why would anyone expect otherwise from Spanish-speaking kindergartners?

Also, have you looked at a map to see how close Ashlawn is? Once Reed opens there will be 300-400 excess seats in NW. Move the boundaries a bit and most of those seats can be made available to South Arlington just across 50. It’s a road, not an ocean, people cross it everyday, often multiple times.[/quote]

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