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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]8:42 again.  According to the MCPS website, Spanish immersion is offered at:

•Burnt Mills Elementary School
•Rock Creek Forest Elementary School
•Rolling Terrace Elementary School

[b]Is Burnt Mills the same as Kemp Mills?[/b]
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No, Kemp Mill's program is dual-language, not immersion.  The classes are mixed with native Spanish and native English speakers.  Each groups gets reading in their primary language, and then other subjects are mixed.  It's based on the research that shows children learn to read best in the language they understand the best.  So a student whose dominant language is Spanish would ideally be taught to read in Spanish first, and the skills would transfer as they learn to speak English.  If you think about how we learn languages, it makes a lot of sense--if you learn French as an adult, you don't have to learn to read all over again, just how to read those French words.  It's a godo cocnept, but difficult to implement because it depends on having a certain student population.  The KM program is only for students in the KM assignment area, I believe.  It's not a program out-of-boundary kids can apply for.[/quote]

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