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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that it's a real possibility they will eliminate these programs. The Office of Shared Accountability put out a report early last year about the Two Way Immersion programs and some negative outcomes in them. I think they are setting the stage to eliminate them. I hope they don't and instead figure out how to properly support these programs (the report noted a ton of problems with the implementation), but they cost money to support. And if they are trying to make opportunities the same across the county (an equality model, not an equity model) these programs are not evenly distributed.[/quote]

They absolutely should eliminate these programs. MCPS can’t even teach kids how to read in any language! There is NO MONEY for these fluff programs.[/quote]

And yet there's money to create another 30+ new regional programs. How magic![/quote]

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The TWI programs are not even a decade old. This is just MCPS being MCPS - instead of practicing thoughtful implementation and building on what they have (and fixing the problems), they are just tearing things down to bring in shiny new expensive things that they can take credit for when they apply to their cushy edtech jobs. Implementation will be a disaster and they won't be properly resourced, just like the current programs, so in less than a decade someone else will come in and say "Look, this isn't working, let's eliminate it and create something new (that will also fail but we'll be gone by then, har har)"[/quote]

The OWI French program celebrated it's 50th anniversary last year, FYI.  Not a new program.  [/quote]

Don't worry they will use the TWI evaluation to justify ending the old programs too[/quote]

Sounds like this is your hope.  Don’t know how grounded in reality it is.[/quote]

It's not my hope at all. I just see that Taylor likes to break things and will cite whatever incomplete or irrelevant data he can to justify it[/quote]

Gotcha!  I’m definitely nervous about this but there’s a pretty vocal and very active community behind most (all?) of these OWI programs, so I think they would put up a good fight.  I guess we’ll see.[/quote]

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