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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to wonder if the dual language would just be a way around the fact that the schools are so bad about incorporating ELL children.  This seems like a way they could get around having to work with those kids.[/quote]

Agreed. It would relieve the teachers from having to do double duty, in some regard.
 
Now, this question may rub people the wrong way:  but why are native English-speaking children/kindergarteners in the MVCS zone, as of 2014, being forced to learn math/science in a language that is not the national language? Shouldn't it be the other way around, and shouldn't we be requiring the non-native English speakers to learn in English? That's what all of our forefathers did....mine had to learn everything in English....

MVCS isn't a "special" application-type immersion school like Key Elementary in Arlington, which is opt-in process. And it's not like other FLL programs in FFX county where they teach foreign languages in elementary school, e.g., French immersion, Spanish, even Mandarin (McLean), and it's opt-in.

As of 2014 MVCS will be requiring all rising Kindergarteners in the zone to learn math and science in Spanish instead of English! Does anyone else see the problems with this? I do not want my English-speaking kids to be at a disadvantage in math! This is sending such a bad message!
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