Maryland International Day to be the first elementary/middle school to travel to Cuba

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are students who started in Kindergarten and also in 4th and other grades at the school. One parent who also has a child in an older grade chose not to start her youngest in Kindergarten and mentioned they had some catch up (and not just Spanish related but other aspects of the curriculum including cursive writing and other things) but the teachers worked with them and they have adjusted well. An ability to give individual attention where needed is one benefit of small class sizes. There are other students who do not start until Kindergarten so it is not unusual.

I've interviewed a fee students from MID for internships. Sorry to say, their Spanish, both oral and written, is terrible. We run a small business, with limited time and resources, so won't try again in the foreseeable future.

Most graduates are in high school now. What kind of internships are these?

[Anonymous]

They do excellent on the National Spanish exams so they can't be that bad. Native speakers are generally impressed with our kids Spanish skills however, as with anything there are students who excel at it more than others. Our students also often go on to top private schools in the area where they do not continue to be immersed in the language daily. I imagine there is some regression in those cases if there is not an effort to maintain their skills. I wouldn't paint a sweeping brush of all MIDS students by a couple of interviews...assuming this isn't just a troll.

[Anonymous]

...sounds like you're the troll administrator of the last three posts...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I've interviewed a fee students from MID for internships. Sorry to say, their Spanish, both oral and written, is terrible. We run a small business, with limited time and resources, so won't try again in the foreseeable future.

There's not even a small chance that this statement is accurate. First of all the students who started in the MID immersion program are still quite young and at the most, in high school. Besides, there aren't that many of them and I'm sure they won't be interviewing for internships at any small business like the one you claim to have. Secondly, the posts here may be anonymous but most of us are able to spot the trolls of a bitter European whose ability to speak any language is limited to what he picked up decades ago. Finally, OUR children continue to excel in their Spanish language skills; their ability to function in Cuban schools prove it. The facts speak for themselves.