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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You were sold on the path to BCC?  Not on the opportunity for immersion K to 8??

Your arguments to stay in a path past immersion could backfire by demonstrating that parents enter the program for reasons other than the language.  Be very careful.[/quote]

Again, BCC possessed person I'm not a RCF parent to start.

Now parents go to open houses and ask all sorts of questions about the program other than the basic fact that Immersion will be taught.  For some transportation is absolutely critical.  If tomorrow MCPS says bus service to central stops will end everything changes.  If these same parents were told to find their own way to the school many would not accept slots.   Likewise, if parents are told "...at any point in the future we can opt to send your child back to the homeschool..."  How many parents would think doing immersion is worth the hassle.

The ability to continue along with the cohort is a major factor in whatever program you attend wherever it happens to be housed.[/quote]

I am also not an RCF/immersion parent, but a parent in another special program outside the BCC cluster (BCC family sending student OUTSIDE BCC cluster) who opposes the COSA change.  There are many factors that go into attending a special program.  Transportation is one of them.  Matriculation is an important consideration as well.  That our family looks at these factors as part of the decision-making process doesn't undermine the legitimacy of the receiving program.

If our magnet school didn't provide transportation, for example, many students would be unable to attend, particularly those who are less wealthy and live further away, thus undermining the equality values which were a basis for the establishment of these programs to begin with.  When we ask questions about transportation, that does not prove that we are entering the program for "reasons other than" the basis of the program (language, magnet, special subject, etc.)

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