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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not do it if my child was going to an upper grade.  I would do K and maybe 1st-but only with prior immersion exposure (not just a 2 day a week 30 minute class).

Thankfully, we got into an immersion school in K. My child was able to transition well because for a year and a half prior we put my child in an immerison program outside of school time. I also supplemented with other language immersion activities.

I would suggest that if you do put your child in an upper grade immersion without prior exposure-start now with gettign them ready.  sign up for and immerison afterschool program, saturday/sunday programs, etc.  Your child will be sitting in a Spanish/French only class all day long.  [/quote]

Seems like this is especially true of French (although true of all languages).  I say French because, if Stokes is the only public French bi-lingual school in DC, then your odds of getting in are so slim that if it's really that important, you would really have to start supplementing your child's French education as early as possible.  Yes, many of us who speak a 2nd language well/fluently may have only started in middle school and just continued through and after college, but if you want your child in a bilingual school where the other kids will have been learning/speaking/writing/reading the language since PS, PK or at least K, then you want to start prepping them outside of school now if you're that sure you will seek the bilingual path.[/quote]

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