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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I ask this every time parents are in a tizzy about this on this site. What do you hope to gain with enrollment in this program? Show us the data that proves better outcomes than staying at your home school. It smacks of elitism and classicism every time you complain online about your child not getting in it waiting too long to hear back. Go to your home school and do Duolingo for free at home. Then report back when your kid graduates form college to let us know how your kid fared compared to the wealthy white kids demanding to get bussed to another school to learn a language that was native to the majority of their home school population. Gross![/quote]

This is a weird take.  What do you mean by “better outcomes?”  Most people trying to get their kids in an immersion program do so because they want their children to become fluent in a foreign language.[/quote]
DP. I agree. Most of us parents probably started learning a second language in MS and cannot call ourselves fluent by any stretch of the imagination, even after taking the language to the 4th or 5th year, and despite hoping to be fluent.

I appreciate MCPS immersion as giving students the opportunity to be more fluent.[/quote]

Yes, and I took language in college and used it in my 20s and still don’t feel like a fluent speaker.  I’m thrilled for my kids to have this chance.

I do acknowledge that there are some elitist aspects to the program, although I think most families participating are in it for the foreign language access.  I wish there were spaces for everyone who wanted it.  I think most or all of the families in the programs share that sentiment.

Best wishes and good luck to everyone still waiting for waitlist movement.[/quote]

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