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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immersion programs are ways for kids to get out of their assigned schools. It is also not true "immersion." For instance, kids taking upper level Chinese classes at Churchill are not in an "immersion" program. True immersion program is when Chinese is used to teach math, social studies, etc. But it is a way to get out of their assigned HS. [/quote]

MCPS doesn't have any HS-level immersion programs.  Those in the two elementary Chinese immersion programs get Math & Science in the target language, so less than those in the full-immersion French and Spanish programs (everything but specials), but they are still "immersed" in the language for those subjects.

Two-way immersion, where some days instruction is in Spanish and other days it is in English, also is "immersion," if also not as fully immersed.  I've been befuddled by the repeated anti-immersion-program posts (often with inaccurate/outdated information) of the past couple of months, but I'm guessing, given the relatively small budgetary savings (if any) vs. viable alternatives in serving the needs of a large plurality in the county, that they largely are coming from those who unjustly have been forced into two-way, when they did not want that, by virtue of its being the only model of instruction at their home elementary instead of it having been designed more appropriately as an opt-in, as the other immersion programs are.[/quote]

The kids I know in these programs, including ones at the schools, are struggling in both English and Spanish as neither is well done.[/quote]

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