Reply to List of Spanish Immersion Schools?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "List of Spanish Immersion Schools?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is a very tricky distinction.  I live in bounds for[b] Park View/Bruce Monroe elem and I would say its "immersion" only by default.[/b] I think over 60% of the students are ESL. Test scores are horrible, not a single white student attends either.   I can count about 12 children within two blocks of me and not one would even consider that school for kindergarten.  but would love to get into Oyster...[/quote]

Exactly.  Same goes for Bancroft.  Spanish Immersion is being touted as some sort of desirable option by schools which are Spanish-language anyway.  These schools have such a high percentage of ESL students, that English is the exception, not the norm.  Go ahead and enroll your student with the expectation that her street Spanish will be terrific.  Her Spanish literacy may leave a lot to be desired, given that the majority of her classmates's parents are illiterate in their own language.  Her English will be absolutely horrible unless you dedicate yourself to home-schooling.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics