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[quote=Anonymous] We're French and prefer MCPS (our kids are in magnets) plus Saturday French classes at My French Classes, the francophone weekend school. I don't mind the French educational system, as I grew up with it in Paris, but the high school doesn't have a good reputation, so we decided to do MCPS from start to finish. We're in Bethesda, and our cluster is excellent. I would never put my kids in the MCPS immersion program, which is conceptually wrong: it teaches US history in French. I went to a bilingual school where we had English lit and British history in English, plus French lit and French history in French, so double the workload. Teaching a country's history and culture in another language, without providing the history and culture of that other language at all, to children, rubs me completely the wrong way. To be really bilingual kids need biculturalism, and this is not what MCPS offers. History needs to be understand in that country's language. [/quote]
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