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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We (amazingly) are likely to get in for 1st grade next year.  I didn't even visit because I thought the chances of us getting in were probably slim to none.

Now that I'm here, what would it be like for my child that has some (but not bilingual) Spanish to enter at this grade level?[/quote]

Way to set your kid up for failure!  I guess it's more important for you to brag to your coworkers that your kid goes to an immersion school than actually, you know, doing what's best for your child. Best of luck to your kid. They'll need it. [/quote]

Probably wouldn't matter much to my coworkers, as most of my coworkers ar trilingual or more.  Sadly, Spanish isn't one of my languages (or my husbands).

Assume you are monolingual?[/quote]

Try again.  Unlike you, my children and I speak several languages. Here is my question- if Spanish was so important to you for your child, why are you only going for it once it is free?  Do you really expect it to be easy and not at all confusing for your kid?  One day they understand everything, and the next is a total blur of incomprehension.  I just am stunned by the total lack of care you have not only for your own child, but for the other kids who will be stuck in a classroom with a confused kid who is missing out on half the classes because they don't know what's going on.  How selfish of you to do that not only to your child but to the teacher and other children. By the way, it is hard to teach a child another language. Sure, in a few weeks they'll impress you with some phrases they've managed to pick up. Maybe they'll have some basic conversational skills.  But true bilingualism can't be achieved by every other day instruction, when you're in 1st grade. Then again since YOU don't speak Spanish you won't even know how garbled it is. I guess ignorance is bliss. [/quote]

The US is a nation of immigrants. Throughout our history, children have entered schoolat age 5 speaking no English, and have learned enough to go on to win Nobel Prizes (see for example Eric Kandel)[/quote]

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