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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

DP. Paying for tutors is definitely not a known condition of immersion. We did not know that and I talked to parents and attended the info sessions. No one ever suggested our kid wouldn’t learn to read or that we’d need tutors for everything [/quote]

Are tutors common for elementary school in general? It seems like I know more and more families in APS having to shell out money for tutors. Hard to tell if it's just this area and overly competitive parents or if supplemental help is actually required.

We are an immersion family and HAD NO IDEA our child wouldn't learn to read or would be behind standards in math and english. We have had tutors since they were in K and it was never mentioned during any of the information sessions that we should plan to find help. The families we spoke with didn't mention anything about it either. I do not think this is the norm -- assuming families have to supplement education on their own dime. [/quote][/quote]

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