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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked at a different immersion school, and I noticed that the immersion kids only play with their classmates at recess. By the upper grades, it can get tough socially, because it’s been the same kids year after year. Many parents seem very entitled about the whole thing. If you ask a kid where they go to school and the parent feels compelled to tell you that the kid is in immersion, it’s a turn-off. It might come out in further conversation about the kid’s interests, but just let that happen. At my school, they don’t really seem to learn to speak the language well, and the middle school language teachers report that the kids have weak skills.

It’s a pain in the neck for scheduling. I don’t really see the advantage. I’ve been in meetings where the kid is doing poorly, but the patent refuses to take them out of immersion, even if they can’t keep up, and it’s a mess.

I’m sure it’s nice for some kids. I’d be very interested in a study of how many kids were in it and if they feel it was worth it after they get to their professional lives.[/quote]

Doesn’t sound too different from parents talking about their kids being in AAP, or at TJ, or on an IB diploma track.

And the kids still have better foreign language skills heading into middle school than the kids who haven’t been in an immersion program, even if they aren’t fluent. [/quote]

I teach at a middle school that has former ES immersion kids. If they dont speak the language at home, the kids arent even leaps and bound ahead. It gets you an extra year of language before HS. It costs $$ because the upper elementary immersion classes are smaller than gen ed in most cases (you have to test in after 2nd grade and some kids leave for AAP/a better fit) and the language classes at the MS level are separate and never full. It also is really darn hard to find a part-time German/Japanese/non-Spanish teacher to teach the class in MS (never more than 1-2 sections). And yes, immersion is probably even more cliquey than AAP. It should be eliminated. [/quote]

Your MS doesn’t have language in 7th and 8th grade for immersion kids? Interesting bc ours does.[/quote]

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