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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like there is info online as to what level our children should have achieved by the end of 6th grade at a FCPS immersion school, I didn’t see it.

What are people seeing at their schools? Do you feel like your child has picked up the target language?[/quote]

Immersion is NOT about acquiring language fluency. It is about brain development. My kids were in it. One went to AAP — big mistake. Immersion was FAR SUPERIOR.

The DC who did two-way immersion from k to 11th grade (he just finished 11th). He stayed with to Spanish AP this year. School wanted him to apply for the Governors School program this year bc they think he had a good shot (large Hispanic community here) he didn’t want to go. We do not speak Spanish at home. He’s fluent but shy about speaking it. He definitely understood more than he could speak by 4th grade, not bad for 2 hours a day of target language. Pretty sure he was the only one from his immersion class to continue straight through with the language and finish the entire sequence.

Immersion will not make your kid fluent, but will give them enough brain pathways to make language and other subjects easier to access. [/quote]

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