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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=calexander][quote=Anonymous][quote=calexander]It is pretty exciting news.  I will be serving on the MacFarland Community Cabinet beginning next week (due to our efforts setting up the [url=http://www.nwsadc.com]NW Saturday Academy[/url]).  If anyone has any questions they would like to see asked of the DCPS administration about this dual language program or any aspect of the new middle school, please post them here or send them to ideas "at" nwsadc.com. I will be sure to relay them in our meetings.[/quote]

This is exciting news! Thanks for taking questions for the meeting. I will share my scenario and question related to it. My kids are in one of the Spanish DCI feeder schools, but West is our neighborhood school. While we plan to continue to DCI, you never know how our plans may change in 5 years (1st year for middle school for my family) and this program is exciting as another option. [b]We would be guaranteed a spot to McFarland as our neighborhood school, but my question is would we be guaranteed a spot in the dual language program, residing within the boundaries of non-dual language feeder school? Thanks. [/b][/quote]
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I might interpret your question just as the followup poster did, but I will be sure to ask anyway.[/quote]

I am the questioner about this and your interpretation is logical, but I also hope that since they are in the design phase, they could be open to accommodating these nuances.  So I appreciate you asking the question on my behalf (and more than one other family at my school with the same scenario). I am thrilled with this news for our neighborhood! [/quote]

I think the answer is (1) apply in the lottery; (2) have your child on grade level in written and spoken Spanish. Are you looking for more/something different?[/quote]

Original poster of this question, back again.  For the meeting tonight, essentially, as an in-boundary family, I would like a guaranteed right for my kids to to enter the language immersion program, but then they have to take the entry test to secure entry.  I assume they will be able to do this, since they will have had immersion since their first days of daycare, but I am fine with having them have to test in because the most effective immersion program at the middle school level should have kids who are prepared for the language level (this is a bit of a concern for DCI, since kids can lottery in without the language background).  But I don't want to have to do the lottery to get in, if I am in boundary and this is my DCPS middle school and my kids are capable of testing in to the program.  [/quote]

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