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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with the RCF spanish immersion program is that it's located in a good school pyramid.  Parents who are scrambling to get away from a less desirable school pyramid apply just to be in the BCC.   Magnet programs should be used to draw the affluent/middle class families into the poorer communities to attend schools that would otherwise have few/limited students from middle-class families, not draw the  affluent/middle class families away from the DCC, which seems to be the trend.  It leaves the DCC schools with even fewer middle class families than it would have if everyone just went to their neighborhood school, it overcrowds the BCC (much to the dismay of the folks who pay the big bucks to live in that school assignment), and it makes it that much harder for parents with a genuine desire to expose their kids to a second language to get into the program because they're competing with a whole slew of applicants who just want anything but their home school.  I'm sure there's a story behind the location of the program or a rule behind it or something, and maybe of the elementaries in the BCC cluster RCF has a comparatively high FARMS rate which somehow justified placing the program there, but as a policy matter, and looking at the incentive structure the program creates, my instinct is to say MCPS is doing it wrong with this program.  The full immersion program should probably be in the downcounty.[/quote]

One of the reasons is because BCC has the IB program which is a natural progression for kids in Immersion.[/quote]

Einstein has an IB program too.[/quote]

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