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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So did everyone who thinks immersion is the most important thing ever put schools like DC Bilingual and Bruce Monroe on their lottery lists? Why or why not?[/quote]

First off, not sure I've ever seen anyone say "immersion is THE most important thing".  Not in this thread, not anywhere.  I have yet to meet a parent committed to bilingualism who isn't also concerned with the core subjects, how well they're taught, and whether the school seems like a decent school.

That said, to answer your specific question, the first year we applied, no we didn't put either down.  I checked out DC Bilingual and had 3 negative experiences, 1 at the school, 2 at school expos, where the staff and particularly the principal were very dismissive.  That did it for me, wasn't even faintly interested in applying.  Ended up at an Appletree that year (it was for PS3) and couldn't have been happier (and obviously that's not bilingual at all).

Same year Bruce Monroe was undergoing construction.  I called to ask some questions (this was the end of the prior school year and I was checking schools out for late application since we moved here after the lottery that year).  I NEVER got a live person on the phone.  I went to the school right after school ended, but when school staff were still around.  Found staff and people willing to answer questions at every other school I went to (even if they were a bit grumpy or dismissive, like at DC Bilingual), but no one even answered the door at BM.  Honestly that inability to find anyone to answer a phone or the door over a 2 week period of calling them made me not think of them.  They were our IB school, so we wanted to check them out.  Never went once school started, because we figured if we have to go there, we'd just check it out then, but the lack of people responding to the phone was a big flag for us.

Didn't BM have a new principal this past year, or are they getting one next year?  I wish them luck, I wonder how it's going there. [/quote]

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