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[quote=Anonymous][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]

And Carlin Springs is not a walkable neighborhood school anyway and the only neighborhood actually in the walk zone, Glen Carlin, avoids the school. The kids you're concern trolling about already ride to bus to their neighborhood school. If they didn't want Immersion at Carlin Springs, they could choose to ride the bus slightly south or slightly north to their newly assigned schools. These families also prefer to have their children bused to school because they feel it's safer and it also means the parent doesn't have to accompany them on a 20 minute walk to school. And there's every reason to believe the Immersion program would capture the majority of the Spanish-speaking population, who would choose to stay if it became Immersion. 71% of the current students self-identify as Hispanic. This is where you put Immersion. Make it an easier choice for them, and desegregate one of the most highly segregated schools through choice. [/quote]

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