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[quote=Anonymous]Some good replies here. We know a family that put Spanish dominant for their kids and got into Bruce Monroe and their kids were in no way Spanish dominant and not even 50/50. (They're pretty conversational, but not dominant and definitely not fluent.)

Our child went to a Spanish immersion daycare and heard Spanish at home but I did not feel confident calling her Spanish dominant because (1) if she stubbed her toe she was more likely to say "ouch!" in English than Spanish (2) if the test giver didn't believe she was Spanish dominant we would forfeit our lottery spot late in the game (3) I felt like it was against the intention of the program.

Your mileage may vary, especially at school to school and during the time of the year.

(Also, as a former SSMA parent, I'd recommend against considering SSMA as a bilingual option. It was a pilot, and only for a limited number of classrooms. You'd be doing another lottery within the school to get into one of the classrooms, and there was zero transparency about the process. Supposedly there was a waitlist for these classrooms, but it was poorly managed and parents who had requested to be added never were put on this wait list, etc.)
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