German Immersion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WSHS doesn't have room for transfers, for any reason. What school are you zoned for and how did you get in to Irving? I'd try to find another high school with German or see if you can do virtual German at your home high school.

I thought Irving is closed to transfers too.

FCPS should have been enforcing their transfer policy all along, not allowing any German language transfers into Irving or WSHS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am sorry. That is very frustrating. My child’s current high school stopped offering German before he got there. I was disappointed as I wanted him to take it. It wasn’t offered at his middle school either. I had briefly thought about the immersion program for 1st grade at Orange Hunt but didn’t want the commute. I don’t know why German isn’t offered at more schools.

They don't have enough teachers.

[Anonymous]

They recently changed the regulation so that no transfers for languages are allowed at the high school level. I think you need to write to your school board member and to Dr. Reid’s office to request that exceptions be made for students who are continuing with a language that they started in an elementary immersion program. Surely they didn’t give any consideration to immersion students when making this revision, as prohibiting them from transferring to continue the language shows a complete disregard for the time and energy students and their families have put into that subject for years. If I were you, I would gather as many families as I could and get them to write to the school board. They should listen to you on this.

[Anonymous]

I find it incredibly frustrating that FCPS isn't consistent with the languages it offers. Where I grew up, every high school offered French, Spanish, German, and Chinese. I get that we are a much more diverse community but it's ridiculous that every school has a completely different set of languages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They recently changed the regulation so that no transfers for languages are allowed at the high school level. I think you need to write to your school board member and to Dr. Reid’s office to request that exceptions be made for students who are continuing with a language that they started in an elementary immersion program. Surely they didn’t give any consideration to immersion students when making this revision, as prohibiting them from transferring to continue the language shows a complete disregard for the time and energy students and their families have put into that subject for years. If I were you, I would gather as many families as I could and get them to write to the school board. They should listen to you on this.

Yes. This is ridiculous - you've invested a lot of time into the immersion program and I'm sure there are a lot of other families in the same situation. This is unfair.

[Anonymous]

Immersion kids should absolutely be exempt from this. It is extraordinarily frustrating that they are blocking immersion kids, but doing NOTHING about checking residency. Just go count the number of cars Maryland license plates dropping kids off at Irving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Immersion kids should absolutely be exempt from this. It is extraordinarily frustrating that they are blocking immersion kids, but doing NOTHING about checking residency. Just go count the number of cars Maryland license plates dropping kids off at Irving.

The district is aware of the residency fraud in that pyramid. They do not want to check residency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They recently changed the regulation so that no transfers for languages are allowed at the high school level. I think you need to write to your school board member and to Dr. Reid’s office to request that exceptions be made for students who are continuing with a language that they started in an elementary immersion program. Surely they didn’t give any consideration to immersion students when making this revision, as prohibiting them from transferring to continue the language shows a complete disregard for the time and energy students and their families have put into that subject for years. If I were you, I would gather as many families as I could and get them to write to the school board. They should listen to you on this.

If exceptions are made, closed schools like WSHS, and Irving which is also over capacity, need to be closed to language transfers.

If the immersion kids want to continue with German, Robinson should be their only choice since it is the nearest school with capacity offering German.



The students can go

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it incredibly frustrating that FCPS isn't consistent with the languages it offers. Where I grew up, every high school offered French, Spanish, German, and Chinese. I get that we are a much more diverse community but it's ridiculous that every school has a completely different set of languages.

I wish Italian was offered in FCPS. My high school had Spanish, Italian, French, German, Latin, and American Sign Language. Sign Language was very popular.

[Anonymous]

Here us kindergarten parents excited that people stopped having babies and schools will be easier to get into in 10-13 years.

[Anonymous]

South Lakes has an excellent German program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here us kindergarten parents excited that people stopped having babies and schools will be easier to get into in 10-13 years.

Schools will close when the population cliff comes along.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:South Lakes has an excellent German program.

But if there are zero language transfers, how can you transfer to South Lakes or Robinson?

[Anonymous]

Robinson and SLHS are IB schools, you can still transfer for IB. Pupil place to robinson for IB. You can take AP classes and IB classes there.

[Anonymous]

That’s a work-around, but they shouldn’t have to do a work-around, plus that kind of work-around might not exist for all languages. FCPS needs to provide a path for those immersion kids to continue.