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[quote=Anonymous]DS was in a 2 way immersion program in FL that had some Spanish speakers but nowhere close to 50% (maybe 20%?). It was good for us, and most of the families in the program loved it - both the native English and native Spanish speakers. There were also a few Haitian kids in the program, so they came in with 2 languages, just not Spanish. The biggest problem with the program was that because there was only 50% of the instructional time in each child's native language, kids who were gifted and advanced readers in K tended to do just fine, but some kids were struggling with learning the basic curriculum material in their native language. So we ended up with a lot of the English speaking kids needing phonics help for reading in English, math help for mastering basics of 2nd and 3rd grade math, etc. By the time they got to 4th grade a lot of the Spanish instruction time was being taken over by test prep for the state standardized testing because those test scores mattered more to the administration than Spanish fluency in the dual language program. I actually put DS in the dual language program because he was reading before K and we thought it would be a good challenge for him and keep him from getting bored. They moved at a pretty quick pace and I didn't get the impression that the native speakers were bored sitting through the immersion parts in their native languages - it was just K or 1st in their native language. It also really helps to have kids who speak fluently, so your DS isn't going to be sitting reading to himself or anything while the others are learning to count and say hello, etc. [/quote]
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