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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking back and knowing what I know now I wish we would have gone for ATS instead of immersion. At the time, I thought dual language was important and now we are LITERALLY paying for it because of the cost of tutors. And even though DC qualified for summer school it was a joke this year. [/quote]

Did you not know that tutors were a normal cost of life for Immersion...at least the non-native side? Families have found that out for years because it is harder to learn basics in two languages. Also if you don't converse at home, you hire someone or send to camps to keep fluency over summer and such. Looking for a maid who would speak Spanish to children was a common refrain in NArl a decade ago. Isn't there always a big dropoff at 2nd grade in Immersion when non-native families throw n the towel? All of that predates today by generations. It's just how it is. If you now know fluency isn't going to happen or your kid would struggle, I'm not surprised you wished you went to ATS, but that was your decision under known conditions. [/quote]

This is BS. I had a kid go all the way though ES & MS immersion. Now in high school. Not once has the kid needed a tutor… good grades, high test scores. We do not speak Spanish at home. I know a lot of families in immersion, and tutors are not the norm. Kids learn just fine. You do realize that kids all over the world routinely learn/learn in multiple languages, and it’s just not a big deal? It does not set them back, even if it may take a little extra time to pick up some things at the beginning. 
Sure, there will be some cases where it doesn’t work out, but it’s not the norm. [/quote]

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