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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm sorry so many responses have been nasty. In your situation, I would see if enrolling your 10th grader at Eastern for the IB program is an option. For your 4th grader, see if Chisholm and Stokes East End has any openings if Spanish immersion is important to you. Other options would be the Hill elementary schools (minus Brent because of the swing space issue). Thomson (downtown) is also decent and has a viable.middle school path.

Here's the short waitlist website: https://www.myschooldc.org/short-waitlists[/quote]

I’m assuming OP’s 4th grader has no spanish background.  If so, I would not start a 4th grader in am immersion program.  Bad idea.[/quote]

And here I assumed that if someone is moving to DC for 4th grade and enters the lottery for Stokes or another dual-language program, the child has had enough exposure to the target language that they're not going to be utterly lost.[/quote]

Charter schools are required to accept anyone who gets a spot off the waiting list. They aren't allowed to ask about language proficiency, IEP status, or anything else. So they have to give support.[/quote]

Sure.  They can help support what they can but no amount of money and support is going to make an 8 or 9 year old succeed in doing well when in an immersion setting when the other kids have had 6-7 years of true immersion.

If you think otherwise then you are wrong.  Unless of course the program is super weak and it’s not really true immersion standards or expectations. [/quote]

It seems to work ok for most immigrant kids who enroll in English speaking schools with ESL support, especially if they have a strong educational background in their primary language.[/quote]

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