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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Takoma also didn’t make any offers for 1st, 2nd or 5th grade and only opened 4-7 lottery seats for each of those grades so it isn’t just prek.[/quote]

It blew through the entire waitlist in third grade, though--that was a surprise to us. My kid had a very bad lottery number (last spot on each waitlist) and we still were offered a place. It just goes to show that this isn't a predictable process.[/quote]

That’s likely because many families left after 2nd, typical of poorly performing schools when the achievement gap gets real[/quote]

Or because they want to secure a middle school pathway. I know more Takoma families that move to DCI feeders in middle and upper elementary because it’s walkable and better than the feeders, despite being perfectly happy with Takoma itself.[/quote]

First of all, if families are happy with elementary, they would stay till upper elementary like 4th which is typical of the schools in Capitol Hill, not leave so early.

Second of all, this must be a troll because many [b]families would not move their kid to a language immersion school in 3rd and up with no language background.[/b]  That would be a disaster and their kid would not understand 1/2 the instruction taught in the language.[/quote]

You must not live in the neighborhood because families do this all of the time. MV, Stokes, and DCB get significantly easier to get into in upper elementary, and many families either have some language at home or know that the immersion is light at all of these schools. It's a few years then they get on the lowest track at DCI and have a walkable middle and high school.[/quote]

This is hilarious.  We are at one of the schools above and the immersion is not light.  If any family with no language background are telling you otherwise, then they are not giving you the full picture.

The kid won’t understand anything and will not advance academically like they would at a non-immersion school.  And your a few years of 3 or whatever is huge and a big deal as losses pile up.  [/quote]

I know 3-5th graders at DCI feeders from different families that still can’t have a basic conversation with me after 5+ years of immersion. Their comprehension is very poor. Maybe it depends on the school, but it’s obvious the school either translates or they tune out.[/quote]

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