Language Immersion Questions
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| ^ yes also not racist since assuming Spanish speakers are poor is racist, but of course the irony is lost. |
Anonymous
No, of course, there's no racial component to people fleeing FARMS populations. Keep telling yourselves whatever you want. |
Anonymous
Racial components may be the case for some, but not all. I'm black, yet I still prefer a lower FARMS population (not zero, but not the majority, either.) Does that make me racist? |
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To address the original question about supplementation...
I have two kids who went through full-day immersion years ago. One has graduated college and one is still in college. One of my kids was a top student and we didn't supplement. That said, grades dipped in middle school when kid struggled with English spelling and reading speed. Kid graduated from an ivy. My other kid had learning disabilities. Some administrators tried to convince me to pull that student out because of the lds. I didn't go that route; instead, we supplemented. We hired an English tutor during the school year and summers were spent supplementing the foreign language so my kid wouldn't forget. Tutoring continued, as needed, through high school. That student was admitted to our state flagship. A lot of parents panicked around grades three and four because of the kids' English. Immersion works best if you are committed to the full process. There is a dip in their English and then they recover. |
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^^ Sorry hit the bottom before typing.
I was wondering about the summer - my kindergartener is in full-immersion but I am not fluent (much better at reading the language than speaking) and my accent is terrible. I'm wondering if we need to get a tutor for the summer though the expense would mean giving up camp. Also DC has been complaining a lot about not going to "English School" - we have reached out to the teacher and counselor for help with this but I wondering what others do for the summer. |
Anonymous
| When younger, the kids had a 1/2 day Spanish camp run by former MCPS teacher the week before school started. IT was very useful to help them "remember" Spanish. Teacher got re-hired by MCPS so hasn't happened the past few years. |
Anonymous
| Have kids watch Disney movies or something in Spanish sometime in August or go over workbooks. No reason to get a tutor |
Anonymous
| I agree. We have never done anything formal during the summers and just stick to an occasional TV show or low-key practice on the set of kindergarten/first grade/second grade words (maybe 3-5 activities over the course of the entire summer) and my child has always adjusted very quickly once school is back in session. This summer I am going to encourage a bit of independent reading time in the target language, now that reading skills are solidly in place, but nothing crazy. My child does well in school; it does not appear that our lack of work over the summer has any major impacts. We do not speak the immersion language at home. |
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Some immersion families leave for the HGC centers in 4th/5th, and slightly more get off the immersion track in middle school, and head to the humanities/math magnets. But I would say most people stay the course.
We have never done tutors (in English or Spanish) - just figured that the fact that they read all the time in English would help them. My child went to the humanities program after k-5 immersion and it was funny how her English spelling really stunk at first. Informacion is how you spell it in Spanish, not English, etc. But she figured it out quickly enough after a few teacher red pens. 
good luck! |
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forgot to add, for the OP:
Testing is in English. |