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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you drop out of immersion, you will be in a different class. Immersion is only half day at Potomac. Kids do math and science in Chinese and reading, social studies and specials in English.  They may make a few new friends if they are not in immersion. Kids stay with their class for half the day.

There are usually 2 Chinese classes in each grade with about 25 kids in each class.  Teacher teaches one class in the morning and the other class in the afternoon.  There is one teacher for each grade.

What they learn is very basic. It’s about 60% Chinese but some also do not speak the language at home. It’s also done through repetition and songs. Don’t worry if you do not speak any Chinese. My kids did not and they did fine.

There is only one immersion program in each school. There is no French or Spanish at Potomac. Only Chinese.

It’s a nice program. They have a fun Chinese new year celebration and do dinner and a program with singing and some dancing. It’s done well but keep your expectations very low. They will learn a lot more of the language in MS.  By HS, the sad part is most non native speakers drop. Very few non native speakers earn the bilingual award. Most that take AP and score 4s and 5s are mostly native speakers. [/quote]

Do you know how many students in Hoover MS immersion program go to Churchill HS through COSA? If a student in the MS immersion program does not live within Churchill HS boundary, does it mean that student need to go back to the home school after finishing MS immersion program?[/quote]

Not that many since most live within the Churchill boundary. Potomac selects most immersion kids from within.  Maybe a handful each year need COSA when they go to MS.

Technically, if kids do not continue with Chinese, they are suppose to go back to their home school. I have heard some kids apply for COSA to continue at Hoover and not take Chinese.

Most kids in HS are native speakers, 95% It’s sad that MCPS does not really develop the curriculum so that kids learn advance language skills. The curriculum is horrible and the teacher does whatever They want which is teaching native speakers. It’s a class of native speakers that already know the language and they all score 5s on the AP exam.  That is what they are most proud of. What’s the point of that?  [/quote]

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