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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are out-of-boundary and attend KG and it has been absolutely great for them. No, they are not going to be fluent just through this experience but it's an additional type of learning that's very beneficial for their developing brains, plus expands linguistic and cultural awareness daily from a young age. They have friends who are in-boundary and out, immersion and non-immersion (more immersion, yes, but it's not like there's a divide). My older DC is in both immersion and AAP and there are a lot of kids doing that, so seems not to be a problem (the class isn't smaller than normal). Love the admin, love the school vibe.

And and love that FCPS provides some non-mainstream options for families and kids who want them. In a school system of this size, there is no reason we shouldn't be able to support special programs.[/quote]

There is no reason a school system of any size should be supporting ancillary programs that in fact are negatives for students who live in the attendance boundary.  Ideally FCPS should dedicate a building for the non Spanish Immersion programs which really serve as extra ESL. Fox Mill and Floris got combined for Japanese so FCPS should do something about Kent Gardens and Great Falls.

It's ridiculous that Kent Gardens took immersion transfers instead of any  base school student. Kent Gardens is at 121% capacity-178 over and gets 174 for immersion transferring in.  Plus other transfers in can be siblings of those in immersion or students who left immersion and just stay. FCPS does not publish the numbers in immersion or the actual class sizes.  Those numbers should be available at schools with immersion by base school and transfers in.

The volume of immersion students at Kent Gardens should mean NO extra funding except for instructional materials and a stipend to a lead teacher.  But that is not what happens.

Great Falls is another immersion problem since the program makes the school undesirable. That building is at 83% capacity and Colvin Run did not want the program when it opened. Immersion can be run as full day dedicated classrooms or pull out for the foreign language portion of the academic day.  That school siphoned off regular ed staff allocations just to make the program work while having unbearable class sizes for the English language portion for all students. [/quote]

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