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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hooker was a tyrant and a master manipulator for over thirty years at Kent Gardens.  It is virtually unheard of for a Fairfax County principal to remain at the same school for so long but she was protected and given anything and everything she wanted by anonymous influence centers in the school system.  [/quote]

True!

60/40=KGES like every public school DOES have to guarantee admittance to those within the neighborhood. There is a lottery for the FRENCH immersion slots only and those are given to 60% within the neighborhood and 40% within the non-neighborhood students. The French Immersion program is almost like another school within the school. Your chances do not go up by speaking French etc. However you cannot be admitted to a higher grade level unless you pass an oral and written French test. Grades 1&2 can be open enrollment but beyond that you must pass the language competency test. I can assure you this information is accurate.

Dr. Hooker's retirement was not given at the beginning of the summer in fact quite the opposite. She ran summmer school and was working on the upcoming school year. In fact for the beginning weeks of school she was still very much running everything from afar. -yes

Also $50 for QUALITY tutoring is a BARGAIN in this area especially for a foreign language. Yes you might find a high school/college student willing to do it for less but they will not have the knowledge of how to properly convey information and material to students at a developmentally appropriate rate and that in of itself will just be time and money wasted. [/quote]

Unless the SOL's are given in French, then French Immersion is useless.  Get rid of it.[/quote]

It's interesting to contrast attitudes on this board about immersion to the dcps board where every other person is chomping at the bit to get their kid into an immersion program.[/quote]

French is useless.[/quote]

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