Why wouldn't you pick immersion?

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Anonymous wrote:Also, the overzealous drank-the-koolaid parents that ask "how could you not give your child such a precious gift?"

This.

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I went to an immersion school as a kid and it was an ok to unhappy experience. I have not used the language since college (I've lost most of what I knew). So I wanted something else for my kids.

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We're speaking our native tongue at home, and DC will go to Saturday school to strengthen language exposure. We are more interested in having our child learn science, math, etc from educators because we know that we can't supplement in those areas.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a relatively low priority for us compared to other factors. We didn't apply for any of them.

Such a bad response. Op is wondering why. It's obvious it was a low factor for you. The post is wondering why it's a low factor. What factors rise above it?

Both parents work in STEM fields, we do not put a high value on learning a second language.

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We're at an immersion school, but all the reasons listed so far for not choosing one make lots of sense. Even though the idea of "school choice" is a bit of a fallacy here, it's a great thing that different parents prioritize different things. This lottery situation would be that much more a nightmare if we all wanted the same 4 schools.

So instead we all want the same 8 schools!

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Inability to support at home. Math, science, writing - I can do that. Mandarin? Nope. Classes, sure. But immersion, no.

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Like the idea, would be sold on it if we could do full cultural immersion. The only way is to move out of the country to country with language of choice.

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Count me in the camp of it just isn't a priority to our family. I don't understand why others are incredulous about that answer. It also isn't a priority for me to avoid gluten. Do you have an opinion on that? Keeping a pristine house? Also not a priority. Raising a happy, healthy, resilient and confident child? A priority.

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We picked spanish immersion (mv) with some reservations, thinking we would bail if it was too stressful on our kid. Instead we have been amazed by how little has been sacrificed to learn another language--she does everything she did at her old school (play, PE, even better specials), but in spanish. So now I'm in the "why wouldn't you?" camp as well.

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Anonymous wrote:My priority was living in a place where we would attend our neighborhood school. If I lived closer to an immersion school and could make the commute work I would have tried, but we decided to live somewhere we could walk to school.

Just different priorities.

This. We live near two decent schools and I also work nearby as well. We value convenience and time. If we lived near an immersion school, we would put it on the lottery application, but since we do not, we didn't lottery for any.

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Agree with all of this:

Academic strength
Stability of program
Middle school option
Location

and also, I don't think it's going to benefit my kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Count me in the camp of it just isn't a priority to our family. I don't understand why others are incredulous about that answer. It also isn't a priority for me to avoid gluten. Do you have an opinion on that? Keeping a pristine house? Also not a priority. Raising a happy, healthy, resilient and confident child? A priority.

I share your views. It's actually a bit of a silly question.

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A solid foundation in math, reading, and science is much more important to us. In particular in math and reading--those are the two areas that if you get behind or develop a fear that will result in major issues later.

Can learn a second language a little later...

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None of the immersion schools are convenient. We enrolled for YY a few years ago but ended up choosing another school off the waitlist that was in our commute.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Count me in the camp of it just isn't a priority to our family. I don't understand why others are incredulous about that answer. It also isn't a priority for me to avoid gluten. Do you have an opinion on that? Keeping a pristine house? Also not a priority. Raising a happy, healthy, resilient and confident child? A priority.

I share your views. It's actually a bit of a silly question.

I think this "why wouldn't you?" sounds more like judgment hidden as a question. No thanks.