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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of people from Magruder there testifying.  Also a bunch from SSIMS.[/quote]

I wonder why MCPS did not point to the additional out-of-bounds immersion students to explain that SSIMS will actually still be around average size for MCPS middle schools?  It's a weird omission....[/quote]

Because I think they are going to do away with Spanish Immersion at SSIMS but haven't said that yet. With the rezoning of RTES to TPMS, that is basically the entire Spanish immersion program. French may stay, but all of French is coming from SCES so I don't think that changes enrollment numbers.

SSIMS parents have been asking whether immersion will remain since October, and Taylor and MCPS have never given a straight answer....[/quote]

So does that mean TPMS will host Spanish immersion or will that just go away except for Westland?[/quote]

I think that depends on how the state requirement of 60 minutes of math per day in MS gets implemented (unless people lobby to get it overturned, but so far no one seems to be paying attention and making an effort to do so, so we're probably screwed.)

If MCPS ends implementing it in a way where kids can only take one elective a year (or maybe one year-long elective plus one semester-long elective), which is what seems most likely, then probably a lot less kids are going to be interested in using an elective spot for a foreign language.  In which case I suspect middle school immersion will be axed across the board... heck, we'll be lucky if middle school foreign language survives at all, outside of *maybe* Spanish 1A and Spanish 1B.  [/quote]

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