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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child has been in a Spanish dual language program since pre k but now as we prepare for middle school it doesn’t seem like that many options. The only school I really hear given as best choice is DCI however it is so far. Is there any talks of them getting a bus from eastern market like other schools? What is everyone take on the few other dual language middle schools? I would hate to abandon language immersion. [/quote]

Good news-DCPS just announced last week that they will be adding a new dual language Spanish strand program at Jefferson. Next school year will be a dedicated planning year. Jefferson already offers a Spanish humanities class to 6th graders coming in from dual language programs (because Chisholm is a feeder). Phase 1 of the program will be SY27-28, where there will be an additional core class taught in Spanish, and then there are plans for a Phase 2 and 3. [/quote]

Honestly, what's the big deal when Jefferson isn't attracting a good cohort of UMC in-boundary families, no matter what goes on there. Same story for the last 6 or 7 years. Jefferson was drawing in more high SES families pre-Covid than now, double in fact. We know Brent families who sent older sibs to Jefferson while their younger sibs go to Stuart Hobson. The reality is that the new language Spanish strand program at Jefferson is really unlikely to appeal to very many UMC families. A few people will go for it, mostly Chisholm grads, that's it. Once Phase 2&3 materialize, in-boundary UMC Brent, Van Ness and Amidon and Chisholm families will still mob BASIS, the Latins, DCI, privates and suburban middle schools. We should only get so excited about this, um, marvelous new option.

If DCPS was remotely serious about serving UMC immersion families, they'd set up the kind of arrangement you see in MoCo with middle school programs feeding Richard Montgomery's competitive IB Diploma program (application high school).  They're not and they won't. [/quote]

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