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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please, keeping the class together isn't going to sell anyone to the cause here. No one is opposed to this in principle but it doesn't apply to at least half the kids zoned for BCC already, so it's pretty irrelevant. Immersion ends before HS, so there is simply no valid reason to add OOB kids to an overcrowded school on the grounds that they and they alone deserve to stay in a single group thrust 12years of MCPS.[/quote]

It's not just about being in a single group.  I'm a non-immersion Westland/BCC parent, and my kids have many friends in this program.  At Westland, the immersion kids are mixed in with everyone else for extracurriculars, and for 5 out 7 periods each day. Clearly they build connections and friendships during those times as well.

I also think that the immersion program adds significant diversity to the Westland and BCC community.  I'm glad that the immersion kids in my children's cohorts are able to stay (my youngest is rising 9th) for HS, and hope that the next cohorts will be able to as well.[/quote]

What sort of diversity, SES diversity?  FALSE.[/quote]

Yes, SES diversity among other types.  We're a middle class (defined as actually in the middle, income around 85K) family who lives in the BCC cluster, a relative rarity, and find that families like us are rare at BCC.  There are plenty of wealthy families, and some very low income families, but few in the middle. When I meet another middle class family, with a nurse, or teacher, or firefighter parent for example, I often find out that they came through the immersion program.

In addition, one thing that I have found challenging for our interracial family in Westland/BCC is that often times SES divisions are close to racial divisions.  Often times it's the immersion families who break these connections, middle class or affluent African American families and low to middle class white families seem more common in the immersion population.[/quote]

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