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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get why you aren't comfortable with full immersion?  Your 3 year old won't be fazed by it one bit.  After a month or two he/she will naturally understand that at school he/she will be using these other words.  They'll just switch over automatically.  You keep reading to your kid at home in English and when  he/she is in kindergarten, you'll have the beginnings of a biliterate kid.  When it all comes together they'll have such an advantage of learning in two languages.  [/quote]

my child is at MV in PreS and it was not as seamless as this poster makes it.  my child much prefers 'english' days.

the fall was challenging - part of it was the new school - there were a lot of tears at drop off not just from my child but from classmates as well.  Drop offs during spanish days were particularly  challenging for my child and children who did not speak spanish.  (my observation)

this became easier as time progresses - maybe if it was only spanish all the time the window would have been shorter ?

If you are on the fence - maybe you can go visit MV and see what it looks and feels like.  Obviously April is a lot different than Sept in a classroom of now mostly 4 YOs but it will give you a sense of what to expect.

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This makes me go "arggg"! I don't mean to offend the pp, it's not personal but I feel so frustrated. We would KILL for a space in an immersion school. I am native Spanish speaker and couldn't get our child in any of the immersion schools last year. She is in an English only school now and even though we applied again for immersion schools, it looks like this year we will be just as unlucky. My daughter is LOSING her Spanish and it's killing me. It makes me so sad. Even though at home we only speak Spanish she is losing tons by not having the opportunity to be at an immersion school. Here's the thing, for us it's more than  "It would be cool/neat for her to speak another language" The other day she was chatting online with my mom who is at my home country and she was struggling, couldn't find the words, words she knew one year ago! Only English words would come.

The fact that we can't get into an immersion school and spots are being occupied by kids who don't really want to be in the Spanish classes, or whose parents do it because they think it's neat but they will never follow through with it... it just hurts. [/quote]

I don't think PP ever said that it wasn't important to her that her kid is in immersion.  She was just trying to explain some of the difficulties so that they person on the fence would have a better grasp of the reality.

If you would really like immersion and you don't think you will get into any of the charters, call DCPS and talk to them about placement in DCPS immersion programs.  They often have more leeway, and if you explain how important it is to you, you might be able to get assistance in getting into one of the DCPS immersion schools.  Charters don't have that flexibility.[/quote]

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