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[quote=Anonymous]Different PP. You sound like you're in La La Land about not supplementing, PP.

I speak Spanish at home to our MS-age kids and have always required them to mainly answer Spanish with Spanish. We've also hosted a series of Spanish-speaking au pairs. But I still wouldn't call them "fluent," at least not the way I was growing up. The standards for speaking and listening in DC public school Spanish immersion programs aren't high, other than maybe at Oyster-Adams, only program with a lottery for native speakers.

The only parents I know who are seriously impressed with standards for speaking Spanish at MV, Lamb, Tyler SI, DC Bilingual etc. don't speak Spanish. These programs generally don't bother with summer immersion camps or their students. When the kid(s) are teens, you won' be able to supplement with a tutor or something if you expect them to ace brutal IBD language exams. You're going to need to send them for weeks, even months, of true immersion study at Concordia or abroad to get good results. Period.[/quote]

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