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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It's like wetland and BCC parents would do anything to make us feel like trespassers in THEIR community - that we should feel privileged that they let us stay, however tenuously, annually hearing fights about how we're not wanted. Everyone assumes we're just after the education that they've paid for and won't entertain the thought that we chose it for the language benefit - we're assumed to be liars and cheats of the system. It feels mean-spirited and segregationist and Elitist, as if they can't imagine that anyone wouldn't be desperately clawing for what they have over what I have. It makes me think that that isn't the community I want for my family, and compounded with the geography issue, is a reason we'll go to SSIMS.
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How do immersion parents not understand the overcrowding that exists at BCC?  That huge development is going on in Bethesda and Chevy Chase?  If the school was underpopulated then it would not be an issue, but it is overpopulated.  It's the immersion crowd that is creating the drama.

I'm a BCC parent and in no way do I think that immersion parents chose the program to get out of crappy home schools. I am sorry you view it as elitist but even with the new portables BCC is strained and then we have to allow for the automatic acceptance for people who chose to live in this cluster.[/quote]

I'm not sure what immersion parents have to do with the crowding at a particular school.  These parents have signed up for a program that the board has placed in specific schools.  If its not the ideal location the board should move the program.  Problem solved.  Same thing with diplomats at BCC.  Same thing with the other random COSA's the county approves for BCC.  The county needs to gain greater control of how kids COSA into the other schools.  But the immersion program certainly isn't responsible for 400 slots.[/quote]

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