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[quote=Anonymous]Oh for goodness sake, ignore the anti-language poster.  Clearly her child is not learning a foreign language, so why worry about her opinion?  Her comments are irrelevant to the conversation.  If you had asked "Parents of children who decided not to do immersion in the first place - do you think immersion is better than AAP" then she should by all means weigh in!

My son is in 2nd grade and will likely be offered a spot at an AAP center.  We are 100% planning to turn it down.  My understanding is that the only potential draw back is that there might be one level of more advanced math that the AAP kids get that the non-AAP kids don't have an opportunity to take?  So assuming my son really gets into math and really wants to take advanced math classes, I'm sure we could find something for him to take over a summer to catch him up in that on the off chance it matters.

I've led service projects to various Latin American countries, and the kids that come out of the Spanish immersion programs in Fairfax County have amazing, near-flawless Spanish.  Their accents are spot-on.  They achieve a level of fluency that US diplomats are envious of - literally.  We were at some events with US officials and the officials got stuck trying to convey a complex point and turned to the high schoolers to help him out.  And they did, no problem.

Having a 2nd language will open doors that people who don't value a foreign language can't possibly fathom.  While their kids are working at McDonalds in high school, our kids will be translating at law firms and hospitals.  Possibly interning with one of the many national security agencies in our area.

Kids can catch up in math any time.  There is a narrow window of opportunity for children to gain real fluency in a foreign language, and you can never go back and regain that opportunity.

No brainer.  Stay in immersion. [/quote]

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