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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This all feels like another sign the immersion program isn't going to make it.

We turned down our neighborhood school and another lottery school at the start of K because we thought immersion was the way to go for our family. I have been second guessing myself for awhile. [/quote]

I don't get why people think this. The county and the schools in the past few years has been making huge strides to improve the immersion program. They got a new spanish curriculum, they moved to an 80/20 model, they started outreach to hispanic neighborhoods, they created a task force which made a number of recommendations that the county then adopted. They created new Spanish assessments to better evaluate where kids are. Basically, they have done a million things to support the program lately.  They are now moving it out of an overcrowded school to a school with a higher hispanic population and new facilities. WHY is that a sign that the program is not going to make it?[/quote]

This makes me so mad.  The resource spent trying to “save” a tiny program that benefits a few students when APS is failing county-wide on languages.  They cut back so kids can’t even take languages until 7th grade, and everyone knows the later you start the less likely it will stick.  It’s maddening.  [/quote]

I mean I do wish they had kept the program but a once a week 30-minute program wasn't helping anyone learn a language.  But I wish that APS would support dual language learning from the elementary level at all schools.[/quote]

I agree, wouldn’t it be nice?   Along with no trailers.  And class sizes under 38 kids.  And persistent qualified individualized teaching for under performers.  And an IB program open to any child in the County.  Etc.  My wish list is quite long too.  I recognize the reality of limited resources and dual language for everyone—particularly where it has spectacularly failed—is a complete pipe dream.

I think it is criminal to spend so much $ and time on an option program that isn’t supported.  Move on.  [/quote]

I'm confused.  How is APS spending more money on the immersion program?  Those kids would still need APS teachers, principals, school buildings, etc.[/quote]

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