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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I fear that opening 2-way immersion schools only in areas with large Spanish speaking populations will further drive out the non-Hispanic middle class and accelerate segregation in MCPS. If MCPS is really serious about the benefits of learning a second language for all children, they would open immersion schools in Bethesda and Chevy Chase too. But they won't.

And to those who point to the popularity of the lottery immersion schools I'll say this: of 5 families I know who sent their kids to language immersion, 4 did so to avoid their low-income local school and get them into a classroom of middle class peers. If you offer them that same immersion experience at their local low-income school, they will not want it.

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Rock creek forest and Westland are in the Bethesda Chevy Chase zone.  The problem is not opening schools in Bethesda.  It’s why are there aren’t more up county programs.[/quote]

Yea, and about 90% of the kids in immersion at RCF live in Silver Spring[/quote]

The worst school in the BCC cluster is still better than anything in the DCC. And then they fight for the kids to “stay with their friends” and go on to Westland even though the immersion program is over. Why not head back to your neighborhood school, wait no need to answer.[/quote]
No, it's not. Like I said dd's immersion program in the dcc has lots of students from Bethesda area schools. These kids are getting something they can't get from these English only schools Bethesda school. You can't see the value in that. So can just stay basic and ignorant.[/quote]

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