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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids attended RCF, Westland and BCC. We were zoned for RM so putting up with the commute was never about getting into a better high school. (The kids were provided transportation for elementary school but not middle school.) It was always about the language aspect. Usually only about 30 kids stay all the way through to 9th. Almost half the kids who start immersion leave before 9th because they move away, go to their home school or go to a religious or private school. The attraction to BCC for the non-zoned kids was BCC’s [b]IB program.[/b] But by the time the kids are in middle school, many parents recognized the close bond the kids have formed.

The PP above is right - when the RCF kids were zoned out, it was partly because some BCC parents wanted to get rid of kids from the eastern part of the county. The immersion kids were collateral damage. It’s unfortunate because the immersion kids are a great cohort. I hope the county reconsiders. [/quote]

DP. An IBDP program that *should* only take native-nearnative-fluent language speakers and students who attended lanuguage immersion schools from ES. [/quote]

Well, that’s not the model we have anywhere in MCPS, let alone with a program like B-CC’s, which is not test-in. [/quote]

Students who are not native, near native, weren't a language immersion student from ES, nor fluent in the language they plan to study in IB by the time they are in HS can struggle with the language IB courses.[/quote]

There are plenty of kids who start with language in 6th grade who do fine -- these are the kids who would be doing AP language if not IB. And there are options at B-CC to do IB and start a language in high school. [/quote]

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