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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I don’t know about Fox Mill specifically, but in general, immersion classes in the upper elementary grades tend to be smaller than their gen ed counterparts at the same school. Kids move/drop out of immersion for aap or other reasons and are not replaced. Immersion is a luxury and should be eliminated, but when it was on the chopping block during the recession, immersion parents lobbied hard to keep it. [/quote]

We are at Fox Mill and this is the case. As kids leave JI, they are not replaced so the class size drops. DS started with 31 kids in each of the first grade classes for JI and I think they are down to 24 in each of the JI classes for his grade level. I think the Gen Ed classes are still smaller then his JI class but not by much. That said, the Gen Ed classes start off a good deal smaller and the JI classes are full. I can see how there would only be 3 classes per grade at the school without JI because of the number of students once you remove the out of boundary students.

Fox Mill is also adding Local Level IV next year so there should be fewer kids leaving the school for AAP. I don't think that there are that many kids who leave JI from the Japanese program but that is just hearsay from parents. I know one from DS class who left. The JI kids are going to be able to participate in Local Level IV, although I am not sure how that will work.

I am not savy on how the School Board makes the language immersion programs work but I know that we very much appreciate the option at Fox Mill, it has been great for our kid. [/quote]

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