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[quote=Anonymous]Increased costs is just common sense.  PGCPS isn't cutting programs that are succeeding, the Kettering program is a hot mess.  The budget documents say that eliminating those under enrolled programs will save $2.5 million dollars. Eliminating the ES and MS IB programs will save another $2.8 million.

If there wasn't significant costs associated with classrooms with 10 students, then we wouldn't have kindergarten classes with 25+ students.  The attrition rate from elementary to middle school grades in a most of the language immersion programs is close to 50% for some cohorts.  If you start with a class of 90 in kindergarten that number is down to 45 by 6th or 7th grade, and then down by another 50% or more for high school.  So you are buying and running an entire high school curriculum (including electives) in French/Spanish for 40+ kids a grade?  
  
In my experience, parents would be much better served to figure out how to guarantee their kids a path to a middle or high school with advanced course work in that language if it is important to them. Get a guarantee that the elementary immersion kids would get entry into a middle school or high school with advanced course offerings.

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