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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Parents in this city take immersion far too lightly and it's not always a net positive for their children. But you'll never convince parents that feel like they won the lottery of that.[/quote]

Maybe but some parents in this city take immersion far too seriously and decide if the kid isn't at native speaker level or even fluent, it's pointless.  Whereas for many people, if the child is decently conversational, and not otherwise behind, that's a net positive.  If you go to Europe, where they do various degrees of language immersion from elementary grades, you find people are comfortable holding conversations in multiple languages.  Usually not perfectly, but well enough, and no one expects perfect fluency as the bar.  As long as your child isn't stressed and the school is supportive, it's fine that they don't speak the language perfectly.  [/quote]

Right? Unless you sound like you've been speaking Venezuelan Spanish since birth, your language skills are useless![/quote]

Oh come on, I know way too many 3rd to 5th graders that have been in immersion since pre-K and still can't string together a sentence. At best that's a waste of everyone's time. At worst it takes away from English instruction that some kids really need. I know no immersion kids from MCPS or FCPS that speak so poorly in upper elementary. "Well enough" is great, but we're actually talking about "not really at all." And it's parents that don't speak the language who have no idea whether their kids actually can hold a conversation in the second language. [/quote]

^^Pretty much exactly what I was talking about.[/quote]

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