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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do any other immersion programs feed all the way through high school?[/quote]

Yes they do... SSIM can go to Blair, chinese go to Churchill.[/quote]

Not true.  SSIMS immersion kids go to their home high school or whatever magnet admits them.  They do NOT go to Blair.[/quote]

Wrong wrong wrong....

From the choice manual:

Students who reside outside the Downcounty Consortium, but attend a Consortium middle school, may participate in high school Choice, following the same process as students residing in the Consortium. These students also are assured that they may attend a Consortium high school. However, for these students, there is no guarantee of admittance to a specific high school, because they do not reside within a base area of one of the high schools. Student Choice request forms for out-of-Consortium students are processed in the second round of the student assignment process, after students residing in the Consortium have been provided with their high school assignments.
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Fine, they are part of the choice program.  I forgot to mention that.  So their path is:

SSIMS-->home high school OR DCC high school via the choice lottery/request process (DCC includes Blair) OR magnet.

They do NOT have any special admittance to Blair (as Westland Spanish immersion kids do to BCC).[/quote]

Sigh.....   They don't have it because of the DCC...  It would be unfair to the others in DCC.  However, the REASON they are involved in choice at all is because they are full fledged members of the community.  It has nothing to do with Immersion continuation.  Their whole schooling has been in the DCC just as those in RCF and Westland are ingrained into the BCC cluster.

Finally to the original point Chinese Immersion can go to Churchill, SSIM can go to choice including CAP.  [b]So the Spanish Immersion matriculation to BCC is far from unique[/b]![/quote]

French Immersion kids participating in the DCC choice program for high school options is NOT the same thing as the entire Spanish Immersion cohort going to BCC.  Not comparable, not even close.  As a practical matter most of the French Immersion kids either go to a DCC school or a magnet (if they are in the DCC) or to their home school or a magnet (if they are not in the DCC).  So the effect is the same as if they were scattered to the winds.  There is no concentration of immersion kids at any one school in the DCC.

You are being disingenuous, using this as an argument that the "Spanish Immersion matriculation to BCC is far from unique."  It is, [u]in fact[/u], unique.[/quote]

You avoid mentioning Churchill like the plague, why is that?

Furthermore the whole Spanish cohort doesn't even go on to Westland let alone BCC.  Many go to SSIM and again on to DCC.

Lastly, how is it that you know where Immersion students end up in the DCC?  The reason the are not together is there is no single path to continue to like in Churchill and BCC.   If there were you would see it.  But at least students have the option to follow their good friends from K and up if they choose to do so.[/quote]

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