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[quote=Anonymous]I can't offer terribly useful help from experience, but I guess I'd ask you how important immersion is for you. For some families it's really important. For my family it is not. We are very happy at our non-immersion DCPS and while becoming fluent is valuable (I read the literature) my husband and I just decided that it's not a priority for us as parents. I don't know how long you keep an unhappy child in his school (particularly if you have another option) but my instinct is that you shouldn't let it go on too long because at that age I would fear that this experience would set the tone for how he feels about school long-term. But maybe that's way off base...that's just my instinct. Also, you seem to be saying that he's unhappy because of the immersion part...are you sure of that? Could it be something else? separation anxiety, the overall tone of the classroom, the teacher, are the other students nice, etc? Is your son usually easy going or does he get easily frustrated if he doesn't understand something? If the latter, maybe sitting through a class where he doesn't understand what's being said is really frustrating and anxiety causing for him?[/quote]

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