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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are also Key dropouts.  My observation from transitioning from Key to a different APS elementary school is that Key does sacrifice some teacher quality in order to hire bilingual teachers.  We had a few fantastic teachers at Key, a few terrible teachers, and a few mediocre teachers.   Kids who do well in immersion have great success- kids who are not making it need to cut their losses- in hindsight I wish we had pulled out faster.  It gets harder and harder as the kids get older if they have not picked up Spanish- and the kids get more and more used to sitting in a classroom and not really having any idea what is going on- which I think is an ongoing problem for my kid- they became so accustomed to not understanding b/c of Spanish, that now when they are struggling with concepts in English, they still don't ask questions or speak up.
Key is also not well equipped to deal with disabilities.  The fact is, they don't have special ed support in the Spanish classroom.[/quote]
I agree about the sacrifice of some teacher quality for bilingualism. I am probably going to get flamed for this, but in our experience, the English teachers were much better than most of the Spanish teachers. [/quote]

Interesting. IME, Spanish instruction at the HS level in APS (at least at W-L and Yorktown) is terrible, and I was second-guessing myself on not doing immersion. But it sounds as though Key wouldn't have helped.[/quote]

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