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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immersion already gets to up rated for most of the students from their native school zone until middle. Why would it carry over to high school after the program ends. If you want to go to BCC there is a simple way to do it, buy a home zoned for it. Silver Spring is great until your kids have to mix with other silver spring kids? [/quote]

For the 30-40 RCF immersion kids, who have been going to school together for eight years, and have formed friendships with kids at Westland, it is hard to be forced to go to a high school where you essentially know no one.  The social and emotional well-being of these kids also needs to be considered.

As for numbers there are about 30-40 RCF immersion students per grade at Westland, some of whom are already zoned for BCC.  It is not a large cohort.  [/quote]

That’s the reality of going into a specialty program. When it’s over, you return ti your home school. Same for kids who go to magnet middle schools, or CES programs. If staying with the same kids is important to a family, they should stick with their inbounds schools. [/quote]

Maybe.  I will say as a Silver Spring parent that this is a reason I was disappointed to see RCF kids no longer able to continue to SSIMS.  At least in the DCC, there is a degree of choice in high school programs and kids are likely to be able to continue with some contingent of friends if that is important to them.  So I think it’s a bummer that RCF kids now have to go to Westland, which is very far away for many of us, or discontinue Spanish.  Sligo Creek French —> is SSIMS is much more appealing in that way.  I understand the desire of Westland parents to send their kids to BCC for social reasons.[/quote]

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