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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]
So this already happens.  Look at the east side of the county.  Only option schools at the elementary level.  Middle and highschool they were shipped to Williamsburg and Yorktown to provide diversity.  Some of this has been alleviated with the new middle school boundaries, but highschool and elementary school are likely still going to be extremely long bus rides in order to provide diversity at some other school.  And its interesting because the rich planning units in the northeast (lyon village for example), always went to much closer highschools and middle schools, and they are in no danger now of being shipped off to god knows where in the next boundary change.  
The only part of the county that is well served by APS is the northwest.   [/quote]

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