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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One challenge with immersion is that it's hard for kids to join in when they move in later grades, and poorer kids in DC tend to move more. What do you do when a 4th grader moves IB for a dual-language school or when the charter they've been in counsels them out mid-year?

I think Tyler should go dual-language and Brent should be monolingual (or vice versa), and students in both boundaries should be able to rank their preferences for each. You'd be guaranteed a seat in one of them and there'd be sibling preference to keep families together. Then there would be lots more dual language slots and everyone would still have a monolingual alternative if they wanted it, and both schools would have more racial and economic diversity.[/quote]

Hate this idea.  YOu don't seem to know that Brent is bursting at the seams.  Seen the new trailers on the small playground?

No room at Brent for most IB parent who want PreS3 and PreK4 let alone IB Tyler families who'd reject Spanish![/quote]

Then make Brent dual language and Tyler monolingual. It's the same number of IB kids in the combined boundary either way. [/quote]

And where will you put the OOB Spanish-dominant students? that would have to go at Brent? The Brent families would all have to have IB rights to their neighborhood school. That's why these programs all begin in under=enrolled buildings. [/quote]

The Tyler and Brent boundaries would have two IB schools: Brent and Tyler. You'd have a right to attend one of those schools, and a right to express a preference as to which one you got, but you could get either of them. If the combined boundary for the two schools can't handle the number of kids then it's time to shift the boundary, sending more kids to the Cluster or Payne.[/quote]

I don't think DCPS is going to implement a choice-set in just two elementary schools. Try again. [/quote]

I agree. Each dual-language DCPS that doesn't have a monolingual track should have a choice-set, ideally with a desirable monolingual school. If Tyler goes 100% dual-language, Brent should be Tyler's.[/quote]

Dual language schools don't make sense as neighborhood schools unless the neighborhood has many native speakers in the second language. It would make more sense to make Tyler dual language city-wide and absorb the Tyler boundaries into the surrounding schools as space permits.[/quote]

So by this logic, Oyster, Tyler, Houston should not have dual language programs, or should be city-wide. [/quote]

Yes. Truthfully, I don't know much about the boundaries of Oyster or Houston, but I think in-bound families should have a neighborhood school without the dual-language mandate. Ideally, DCPS would have a small number of city-wide dual language schools available throughout the city in line with demand for those programs. The existing schools seem to have arisen out of involved parents who helped make those programs happen, but I sometimes wonder if the full community is always on board.[/quote]

I agree with this. Or have 1/2 the neighborhood school offer Spanish and the other 1/2 offer English.  Not everyone wants dual language for their child (I don't), and if that is your neighborhood school, you are forced to accept it unless you can lottery out. [/quote]

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