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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would love to hear from current families on the good and the bad. How many kids have continued on in immersion through middle school?[/quote]

Great community - not for every kid.  You won't know if the right place unless you try it.  There is  alot of attrition over time - families that move away, kids with disabilities, families who leave for other reasons.  And few non-Spanish speaking kids would likely be able test in after 1st grade.

Recruiting Spanish speaking teachers is a challenge, but there are great teachers there.  They seem to want to stay and some APS employees send their kids there.

On the flip side, if your family doesn't speak Spanish, their Spanish skills often don't "solidify" until middle school. We moved our kid out because they were missing too much instruction for things like science and math etc.  Not that essential at early grades, but a real deficit by upper grades. So my kid wasn't learning Spanish and as a result wasn't learning things like math and science. [/quote]

NP.  So if, as it sounds like, your kid wasn’t learning Spanish and there was a deficit in math snd science, how did you remedy the math and science gap?[/quote]

We didn't.  That's why we moved.  Could have made up the math gap with a tutor but isn't that why they're going to school? Science would have been harder. And not understanding half the content  impacted DC's feeling about school, self-image, friends.  Have heard that 4th grade is often the decision point for families who haven't left sooner for other reasons. Families that make it thru 4th grade stick it out, but not all continue on to MS immersion.[/quote]

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