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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has avoided answering questions about the future of immersion programs. At this point, they have not said they are changing, but I would expect when they review boundaries for elementary schools, they will be reviewing and likely changing immersion programs.

But to specifically answer your question, at this point, I would assume French immersion will be continuing at SCES and SSIMS.

Spanish immersion at SSIMS will likely end, as most of the students in that program came from Rolling Terrace Elementary and that school has been rezoned to Takoma Park MS.[/quote]

So where will these Spanish immersion students go for MS now? Westland?[/quote]

I'm not so sure about the future of middle school Spanish immersion for the dual immersion kids.  Rolling Terrace is a neighborhood dual immersion program.  I would think the only meaningful way to continue Spanish for them would be to offer it at TPMS, but I've not heard that mentioned.[/quote]

Westland MS is in Region 1 and has Spanish immersion. Alternatively students could articulate to White Oak MS but that’s now outside the region. [/quote]

I get that, but Rolling Terrace is not a lottery based choice program.  It would be a big change for this not to be a neighborhood continuation in MS.[/quote]

Why do we think that RTES students interested in continuing immersion in MS would not simply be given the option to go to whichever MS hosts that immersion program in their assigned zone?  Those who wish to exit immersion will go to TPMS (unless they get into one of the non-TPMS magnets -- Eastern Humanities or MSMC).  Those who wish to stick with immersion will go to SSIMS, adding to the SSIMS utilization and subtracting from the TPMS utilization projected in the tables.  That's how it works for those with other home middle schools.

Of course, if still angling to close SSIMS, the immersion programs, should they decide to keep them at all, might be assigned elsewhere (e.g., combined with Westland if they want to keep only one per region).[/quote]

I was assuming SSIMS would lose Spanish since there would no longer be a program specifically feeding into that school, although neighborhood kids have had an option to do Spanish there (if eligible) in recent years.  Maybe there would be a good cohort of RTES kids willing go to Westland or wherever there is still a program, but neighborhood kids attending a dual immersion program without needing to commute might not continue on to farway Westland in significant numbers.  Someone mentioned Newport Mills above, so maybe that's possible.[/quote]

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