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[quote=Anonymous]IMO the MacFarland language immersion program should have a beginners track for IB students who have not attended an immersion ES program, but also a language proficiency test-in track for students from all over the city who have completed a bilingual ES program or who have achieved bi-literacy by another route. It's important that students in all of our DCPS immersion ES have a shot at continuing their immersion experience if they have achieved a certain level of proficiency by the end of ES. If it wasn't their thing and they didn't really get it, as can often be the case even in immersion programs, then presumably they wouldn't pass the second-language placement test and would not be allowed into the program. IBs would be guaranteed a spot no matter what, although placed with the beginners if their immersion experience had not led to proficiency, and there would, at least in the early years, be OOB spots available for beginners as well via lottery. Proficiency testing could be structured the way Walls does their placement, ie students results are ranked and school accepts the top X number of students per their available slots in the fluent speakers track.  [/quote]

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