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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, are we ranting about immersion in DC? Cool, here's mine:

It annoys me that immersion spots are awarded based on the lottery with no effort to show whether parents will be committed to the immersion aspect, which means that my tax dollars in DC go to provide immersion education to the kids of parents who DGAF about it and make no effort, while my kid was locked out of immersion programs due to bad lottery luck.[/quote]

This is called public education. Everyone should get an equal chance.  Unless it is an application school, then you don't get to rank people based on their "dedication" to the language. I pay tax dollars, too, and I am fine with everyone getting a chance to get in.  You are ridiculous.[/quote]

+1  OP and this other poster are basically saying [i]only kids who have parents just like me[/i] should have access to this resource.  Buzz off, losers.[/quote]

False. They are saying that people who don't give a flying f*** about immersion probably shouldn't be in immersion. There are lots of ways to support immersion, but doing absolutely nothing isn't one of them.

I'd support an option where parents or caregivers in immersion programs had to attend a couple programs through the year on how to support language learning at home, where families who didn't bother to show up for 3-4 hours of instruction over the course of a full year would be unenrolled. I'm sure you will scream at me that this is an unreasonable expectation, and I know it would never happen because it would be deemed inequitable, but I personally think it would be a better way to run these programs.

There are a lot of kids in immersion programs in DC who aren't learning the language AND are not getting a good basic education either (in part because they aren't learning the language). Who does that help? Why would you defend that system?[/quote]

Good thing you don't get to decide how this works.  You have no data to back up your assertions, either.  You are just big mad that other people live their lives differently. [/quote]

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