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[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]

Immersion parent here: I wish you had gotten a spot. Exhausted seeing the multiple clueless parents who don’t try or push their kids to speak the target language.  There is no school in dc that will teach your kids to speak another language without strong supports. And yes I constantly hear how “fluent” everyone’s kids are, and they are not. People are nice and the waiter at the Mexican restaurant/your Latinx neighbors/ the cruise director are just being polite and telling you that your kids speak great spanish. They actually are stumbling along and are somewhat comprehensible, but their grammar is atrocious and their pronunciation is not good. [/quote]

I think people start out thinking it's going well because the novelty of a 4 or 5 year old speaking a foreign language delights them. It's not until 3rd or 4th grade where many parents realize their kid has a very rudimentary grasp on the language, and by then most of the immersion schools aren't actually doing immersion anymore anyway.[/quote]

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