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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but they went to a foreign language immersion private school since kindergarten. There’s also a foreign language public immersion school in our city. [/quote]

There’s usually a lottery to get into one of them they are so popular.   I had French lessons with a handful of students handpicked in elementary school.  Useless unless the student has a real ear for language, kind of like musical prodigies.  It’s immersion or it doesn’t work for the average student.  What I didn’t understand about one of the Spanish immersion elementary schools is 50% of them were primary Spanish speakers.  That was just plain dumb when the slots were so limited.  [/quote]

When you have less native speakers, the immersion experience is limited.

My child is in an FCPS one-way language program, which reserves 10% of the slots for native speakers. A lot more English is spoken during the immersion half of the day than would be my preference. I wish it was more like the FCPS 2-way immersion classes where 50% of the students are native.[/quote]

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