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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who think their child will be bilingual coming out of the program are also sadly mistaken, there is (or was not) any real language instructions, kids were just spoken to in Spanish, plus that was never the goal. The school had an unfortunate cycle of two not so great principals but the new one, Peter Balas is great, he just has a long road ahead of him. Teachers were sort of overwhelmed in DCs last year there, between curriculum changes, SFA and principal switches, it was getting tiring for them. That said, some of the most dedicated teachers I know are at that school. It has so much potential to be an amazing school, a very involved community of parents, a supportive neighborhood, dedicated teachers, and a super enthusiastic principal - it just has to get there .[/quote]

I'm not surprised that the non-Latino children aren't receiving foreign language instruction at MVCS in the dual language program. The whole point of dual language was to boost crappy math SOLs from the majority 70% Spanish-speaking demographic at MVCS. Clearly that is failing. If ACPS gave two sh*ts about non-latino children learning Spanish, they would have FLES programs throughout the district. But there is not a single elementary that teaches any of FLES. It's either immersion/dual language or nothing. I think that is proof enough that MVCS caters to the bottom of the SOLs instead of the kids in the middle. And test scores are STILL dropping despite these efforts.

Take a lesson from Arlington or FFX county! Even S. Arlington publics with similar ESL demographics are kicking Alexandria's ass. Something isn't working and MVCS is a good example![/quote]

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