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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS needs to get rid of immersion and IB. They need to focus on actual proven pedagogy. Same languages at every HS, no language transfers.[/quote]

[b]Hard disagree.  We love our immersion program.  Learning a second language is very helpful for brain development. I’m not going to bother stating research about this because I’m guessing you hate science as well so you can do it yourself if you want.[/b]

Why would you want the world to be so cookie cutter and factory like?  Everyone must do the same thing at the same time.  Go to China if you want that.[/quote]

I don't question that learning a second language is a good thing.  However, these special program do require FCPS to spend additional funds on staff and it does skew our school boundaries.

Right now, funds are tight.  This is a "nice to have" program.  Not a necessary one.  There are better places to spend our funds.[/quote]

Not really.  FLES does require more teachers.  Immersion doesn’t.  The gen ed kids in immersion have to have a teacher and they make up a regular class size. Those children would need a teacher even if they weren’t in immersion.   It does require selective hiring as the teachers have to speak the target language, but the teachers of immersion get paid the same as other teachers.

[b]That is not a great arguement.[/b][/quote]

I don't think you understand how it affects staffing.

Just like having an AAP center, the number of teachers has to be divided up separately.

Here is a simplistic explanation:  If you have 500 kids and the staffing calculation is 25 students per teacher, then you need 20 teachers.
However, if you have to separate some of those kids for immersion, then you cannot divide them evenly.

Throw in different enrollment levels for each grade, and it makes it even more difficult.
This is why, in AAP schools that some of the same grade levels have an extreme disparity in classes within a grade level.  In that situation, the principal may take higher achieving gen ed and place them in AAP.  I don't think you can do the same in an immersion program.

It is more expensive.

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