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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP - If you can eliminate 25 kids/grade - that's 100 kids which is about 2/3 of the current overcrowding. Does it solve the whole problem? No. But that's a sizable percentage. Should we look at ALL COSAs? Yes. But that doesn't mean you do nothing at all while you work through the other COSAs.

And couldn't this be seen as an opportunity to increase the number of Spanish 7 classes around the entire system? Why should BCC be one of the few when there are surely home school communities that would appreciate the option.[/quote]

Because, when you take 25 immersion kid and split them up around 20 high schools, that means that there are only a few kids prepared for Spanish 7 at each school -- not enough to offer a successful class.  You can't have an effective Spanish class that is teaching to three different levels of Spanish in the same classroom.  This would mean that each group is getting about 15 minutes of instruction and spending the rest of the time teaching themselves.  Not really an effective strategy in a foreign language.[/quote]

Maybe a solution would be to spread around the schools that offer advanced classes. For example, ensure that at least one DCC school offers it so that kids in the DCC have an option to choose a school that has Spanish 7.  Seems if the BOE goes through with this, they should find a way to ensure students who want to continue advanced classes can.

Question for the immersion parents- if continuing to BCC wasn't an option, would you still enroll your kids in the immersion program knowing they'd have to go back to their home high school?[/quote]i

Immersion parent here. Yes, without a doubt. The program is really challenging- especially because we dont speak Spanish. I have no idea why someone would put up with six years of this plus three years of a 45 min drive to Westland just to maybe get to go to BCC. If it matters, SSIMS is our home middle school and my fifth grader is going there next year. [/quote]

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