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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, question for all of you. In talking about moving immersion to the west Pike, are you all thinking that more Spanish speakers will apply and therefore the schools will have that optimal 50-50 balance of Spanish and English speakers? If so, that will bring in some more Spanish speakers, but the overwhelming majority of them will just have to find another neighborhood school (which their would be none on the western pike.

Or, are you thinking that the Spanish speakers will all flock to those immersion schools and get in, making them majority Spanish? Not only will that hurt the instructional model as much as too many English speakers do now, but I guarantee that a large chunk of the UMC English speakers will avoid immersion if it is overwhelmingly poor people (as they avoid high poverty schools now).

If the former, some of those current Carlin Springs kids would go to Ashlawn, but most are closer to Randolph or zoned to Abingdon. You all talk about Ashlawn reaching below 50, but the area right below 50 is predominately nice UMC homes. Those are white folks people, not the low income housing further south. Those kids are closer to Randolph and would probably NOT go to Ashlawn.

The Barcroft Apartments people would certainly go to Randolph, so how is that any improvement for Randolph - make it 99% low income? Or Barrett, which is already like Barcroft?[/quote]

You are correct that the boundaries are not great for picking up the displaced Carlin Springs (CS) students (primarily Spanish-speaking and low income) who do not go to the new CS Immersion. Barcoft and Randolph cannot pick them up current CS-zoned students without exacerbating their own already high FARMs rates (and doing so would basically negate CS becoming immersion by simply transposing the CS FARMs rate to Barcroft/Randolph). Abingdon could absorb some, but not all, and that's quite the bus ride for the CS families. Extending Ashlawn's boundaries south first picks up the MC (white) Glen Carlin families, so the boundaries would have to go much further south to pick up the low-income CS students. Also, most of the Glen Carlin families who currently choice out may not if Ashlawn becomes their neighborhood school, so that could end up sending a lot more students than expected to Ashlawn.

[b]The best option is to move Claremont Immersion to Carlin Springs, aiming for a 50-50 split of English/Spanish. [/b] That would be beneficial in terms of language acquisition, and balancing out demographics.

Claremont can stand on its own as a neighborhood school. The walk-zone around Claremont is mostly MC single-family homes, and its FARMs rate last year was 37%, so it could readily pick up some of the low-income CS students, both in terms of capacity, and FARMs rates. It would also be closer than sending them to Abingdon. Ashlawn could pick up some of the displaced students, but would not need to absorb as many if Claremont becomes available. Heck, if you sent the eastern half of the MC Glen Carlin families currently zoned to CS to Barcroft or Barrett, that could better balance demographics at one of those schools too!

In any case, moving Immersion from Claremont to Carlin Springs opens up options. If done smartly, multiple schools, not just CS, would benefit.    [/quote]

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