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[quote=Anonymous]My child is in kindergarten at Oyster Adams which is 90% Spanish immersion. It has become clear that he has some significant learning challenges and isn't making academic progress. We have initiated the evaluation process - the school has been great so far with offering assistance. I expect we will have an IEP in place by mid-March. I think its pretty clear we will need to move him to a monolingual program - if our family spoke Spanish at home, it might be worth pushing through but I'm not going to make my child's life more complicated just for the principal of Spanish immersion.

Child is happy and enjoying school, actively participating in class. He has no objection to the instruction language being in Spanish - he goes with the flow. I'm not big on academics at this age, but I do wonder if we should move them to our in-boundary English only program (School without Walls at Francis Stevens) after the April break or just let them finish out the year. I think he would make faster progress in an English-only environment, given the challenges. It is almost 3 full months of instruction which feels like a lot at this age.

I will of course discuss with teachers, counselors, therapists, etc at both schools, but thought to get some random parents' opinions on what they would do! [/quote]

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