Prince George’s French immersion parents: ‘We want a place we can call our own’

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From the Gazette: http://www.gazette.net/article/20131122/NEWS/131129484/1029/prince-george-x2019-s-french-immersion-parents-x2018-we-want-a&template=gazette

Yolanda Rogers would like her two children at Robert Goddard French Immersion School to spend their day immersed in the foreign language, but their immersion in an overcrowded school is keeping that from happening — and their planned relocation site isn’t much better, she said.

The French immersion school, a kindergarten through eighth-grade program in Lanham, is currently housed in the same building as the Robert Goddard Montessori School, where students speak English. The immersion program was supposed to move to the shuttered Greenbelt Middle School this school year, but was delayed due to planning and funding issues.

[Anonymous]

Oh shut up, lady. Your building is fine. I think more than enough resources are going to your precious snowflakes already. Let's work on making specialty programs available to more children.

[Anonymous]

I think it would be great if the French Immersion Program at Robert Goddard added grades 9-12. After being immersed in the French language for over 10 years (K-8), what do the kids do for high school?

I would support the school system building or rehab-ing a facility for a complete immersion program if they added grades 9-12. Obviously, they are doing something right over there at Robert Goddard and I am loving it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh shut up, lady. Your building is fine. I think more than enough resources are going to your precious snowflakes already. Let's work on making specialty programs available to more children.

Have you actually toured the school? The facilities are abysmal. While I get the focus in the article on having a dedicated "french environment" probably puts people on edge, the school itself is extremely old and overcrowded. Furthermore because it is not a local school it does not get the same commitment of improvement to the facilities as local schools.

As it relates to the other post, there simply is not room in that building to expand. If people want more seats in the program then space to hold the additional kids is necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh shut up, lady. Your building is fine. I think more than enough resources are going to your precious snowflakes already. Let's work on making specialty programs available to more children.

Have you actually toured the school? The facilities are abysmal. While I get the focus in the article on having a dedicated "french environment" probably puts people on edge, the school itself is extremely old and overcrowded. Furthermore because it is not a local school it does not get the same commitment of improvement to the facilities as local schools.

As it relates to the other post, there simply is not room in that building to expand. If people want more seats in the program then space to hold the additional kids is necessary.

As I understand it, the decision to move Goddard FI to the old Greenbelt Middle building has been made, but construction issues delayed when that move will happen. The complaint in the article is that the new facility will include some space that's set aside for use by the City of Greenbelt and some space that's set aside for use as flex space by PGCPS (basically this would be an "alternative location" for classes if another school had to shut down for a little while due to a facility issue). RGFI parents are arguing that the French Immersion program needs the whole old Greenbelt Middle facility and that there's no room in the building for non-FI uses. The facilities department at PGCPS disagrees.