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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with you previous poster. They just put out a flyer announcing the meeting for July 21st at 5:00 pm. It will be attended by Councilmember Charles Allen and some DCPS leaders. There is also a virtual option to join.

I do believe that this is highly inappropriate in the manner and timing of releasing this information. However, they are using the same tactics of current leader Dr. Brann and Fereebee. The full immersion and dual-language program was voted down by majority stakeholders 1 year prior to Dr. Brann sneakily resubmitting her proposal against the wishes of the majority. [/quote]

Parker and other Councilmembers are expressing support for this. The community *may* have been excluded but certainly there must be some constituents for it if multiple councilmembers are getting involved.

The middle school immersion issue is both a DCPS and charter issue. On the charter side, DCI has limited spots available. Plus not all immersion charters have feeder rights to DCI. Perhaps it was bad planning to have not foreseen that when these elementaries were created middle options would be needed. But we are where we are. The Jefferson solution sounds like a good option. 
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[b]What is the "this"[/b] that Parker and other Councilmembers support? A MS at Chisholm? Or expanding the Spanish program at Jefferson?

I don't know why anyone with kids at another immersion school would support a MS program at Chisholm. It would wind up being like Oyster, where students in the elementary program get in no problem and kids at other immersion schools compete for like 2 lottery spots there. I know multiple families at Marie Reed who have moved IB for Oyster to get there kids into the MS program, which is not a great situation. If Chisholm wants to advocate for an east-side immersion MS, they should be advocating either for a stand-alone school (which I think is a non-starter) or an immersion track at Jefferson, which could actually serve multiple schools and wouldn't just be a little bespoke program for Chisholm students.

I also want to throw out the idea that it's okay for kids who attended immersion in PK-5 to not continue with immersion. I get why you would want it, but I don't actually think it's important enough that the district HAS to provide it. As long as appropriately leveled language courses are offered at the MS and HS level, these kids will still benefit from early immersion, and parents can pursue other immersion opportunities for their kids. The vast majority of DCPS students don't get ANY immersion experience, so I just don't view the lack of immersion opportunities at the MS and HS level as a problem. Not when we have much bigger fish to fry, like creating tracked math and ELA programs at the MS level and improving the academic quality at the HS level across the city. Immersion is a side project, not a central goal of the school district. Immersion parents get too entitled about this.[/quote]

This = eastside immersion middle -- specifically a southeast side.[/quote]

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