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[quote=Anonymous][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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Right back at you dude.  Take away immersion and those kids at the neighborhood school that used to be in immersion need a teacher.  A couple of kindergarten kids coming from immersion schools back to their neighborhood one school throws the kindergarten classes  into needing three teachers instead of just the 2 classes they were going to have. And suddenly you are needing more gen ed teachers than you did.  It is just playing numbers and teachers will still be needed. You aren’t taking int9 account staffing ratios. Immersion starts in younger grades than AAP and because ratios are lower it is easier to need another teacher and classroom when you return the gen ed students to their schools.  The kids still need teachers.

AAP in higher grades has higher teacher student rations so this doesn’t happen as much.

Just because you don’t like choice or are angry that your kid didn’t get in does not mean the program is wasteful.[/quote]

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