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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think one of the problems may have been the large influx of non-bilingual kids in the higher grades.  I think that the school is trying to prevent a recurrence of this issue by concentrating the growth in the lower grades.  That is not to say that no kids will be admitted in higher grades, as that isn't financially feasible at this point, but whole new classes will not be added in those grades.  I believe they found that integrating too many new children in these years was hard, as the new kids tend to group together and not immerse as well.  The hope is that the same dynamic would not occur if there were just a few new students in these grades.[/quote]

Higher grades?  MV currently goes to 2nd grade.

The "problem kids" (lack of a better term) at least in the 2nd grade class I wrote about earlier are not new kids.  They all have been at MV for a few years-some longer than the others.  [/quote]

Yes, first and second grade are high grades in which to start immersion.  They would ideally be the fourth and fifth year for most students.  I don't know anything about the second grade issues, but my bet would be a similar issue.  Most of these kids didn't start until at least kinder ten after several school switches, and they never had the benefit of full immersion, which Mundo Verde quickly discovered after the first year was imperative for all students through Kindergarten.  But, again, I am actually just guessing about this, as I have heard very little about second grade problems.[/quote]

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