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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's aren't separate English/Spanish slots after a certain grade - 2nd? If they are coming from another DCPS bilingual, they don't have to prove proficiency. If they are coming from a charter, I think they have to take a proficiency test.

That said, 6 seems like a lot of spaces to move and they don't seems to admit many after school starts based on prior years' data (except for in Fall 2020- but that was a totally different scenario).

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this is correct. After 1st grade, there aren't separate English/Spanish dominant lotteries. After that grade, if you lottery in from another Spanish immersion DCPS, you do not have to take a proficiency test. If you lottery in from a charter, like Mundo, you have to pass a proficiency (not dominance) test.[/quote]

Why do they presume proficiency if the come from a DCPS dual language school?   All the kids are actually proficient?  I doubt it.  Why not just test all new students?  [/quote]

My guess is it's for political/optical reasons. The theory is that an education (including Spanish immersion education) at any DCPS is as good as any other DCPS, and it doesn't look good to suspect that it may not be true, then test the kids and (gasp) find out that it's not actually true. But just a wild guess.[/quote]

Actually the teaching on Spanish at the dcps my kids attended before oa was top notch, and there were many more native speakers in their classes.

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