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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have the other post on this topic.  My daughter started German immersion at first grade. We went to Orange Hunt for elementary, and Irving right now for middle, and we were supposed to go to West Springfield to continue on in German. Our base school does not have German.  I’ve been emailing back-and-forth to the transfer office in the basic messages so out of luck. 
German is my daughter’s favorite class, all her friends have been together in it since first grade, and now she has to change in high school

If they had let me know, maybe we would’ve changed her mind about middle school and she is an anxious and shy child as well  her friends are important to her[/quote]

There’s no German Immersion at WSHS. Your special program ended. Back to base school. You should have established residency in the Orange Hunt boundary back in 2018 if you cared so much about the high school. [/quote]

Bless your heart.  [/quote]

We own a home in WSHS boundary that was going to be rezoned out because of all these language transfers in. Of course I’m salty.

German Immersion in an elementary level program. There is no German Immersion at the middle school and high school level and no room in the neighborhood schools for extra students. [/quote]

Immersion 100% continues in 8th grade, there is a language immersion specific class at the MS that the ESLI program feeds into. I know this is the case for Japanese and Korean. Maybe it is different for Spanish, French, and German and the kids move into the regular language class but at least Japanese and Korean Immersion continues in MS and then into HS[b] as the kids need two additional years of language if they taake language all 4 years.[/b]  [/quote]

It's not entirely clear to me if the expectation from colleges is that the kids have a total of 4 years of a WL or have a WL all 4 years of HS (which could have some kids taking 6 years of the language).[/quote]

There is no 6 years of the language available.  It would be 2 years of a new language if they want 4 years of high school language, which means they should not be allowed language transfers in 11th or 12th grade.

All those immersion kids should be sent back to their neighborhood schools since the transfer need ends in 10th grade.[/quote]

The immersion HS tend to have DE language classes for the students who participated in LI/[/quote]

There are no immersion high schools in FCPS[/quote]

You are correct, except that I have heard teachers refer to the HS that the ES LI programs feed into immersion HS, meaning that they have programs for the kids who took Immersion in ES and MS. There are programs in place to support those kids as they finish the traditional language path at most HS. I know kids who took DE Japanese classes after they finished the regular courses. Some kids will not take the DE language class and will take different electives instead. [/quote]

If they aren't actively taking the transfer language, then the entire justification for the transfer no longer exists.  Based on policy, they are supposed to return to their neighborhood school.

This is likely the language transfer abuse people were posting about earlier.

The old transfer policy was crystal clear on this.

FCPS simply needs to keep the old policy and just enforce it as written, even if it means sending juniors back to their neighborhood high school or from WSHS to Robinson.

Don't remove the ability for immersion kids to continue with the language.  Just enforce the language transfer policy as it was written, and remove all language transfers from the closed high schools.
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The abuse they are discussing is the number of language transfers out of schools like Lewis and Herndon to schools like WSHS and Langley. Kids from Lewis and Herndon pupil place for German or Russian to attend the better performing school. The number of LI kids is reasonably small. There is one school with German immersion, the number of kids transfering from that program is going to be small. The number of Lewis students who simply love German and want to take it at WSHS is far greater then the number of German immersion kids. [/quote]

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