Is Dual Immersion PK best school?

[Anonymous]

We're newish to the area and have marked Bancroft, OA, Reed, and LAMS as some of our choices for Pk enrollment. We're a bilingual household so we aren't concerned about the Spanish language (we plan on enrolling as Spanish dominant) but actually have questions about English development at any of these schools. For parents of kids who've been to any DC DI school--do you feel like your school did a good job balancing the languages? Which school is "best"? Do you think your child has strong literacy skills in one language or both? We don't actually speak much English in our home (DH and I met abroad) and DH is concerned that with the kids learning "so much Spanish" at school, they'll potentially lose their second (non-English) language. Has anyone else faced this? Did you end up going to an EO school?

[Anonymous]

Or pk3 student entered with no English and is now fully fluent in English. Attends weekend immersion program in third language. Third language is less emphasized and gets less attention, but kid understands most of it. Kid will attend summer camp in third language and visit country over summer. It requires effort and consistency- and putting parental ego on side of kid resists or makes mistakes.