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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having a foreign language as a special is nothing like immersion. If you want your kid to be fluent, you need immersion and that's only available at charters. [/quote]

Someone may have already debunked this but it’s not true that immersion is only available at charters. Chisholm (formerly Tyler) is DCPS Spanish immersion and I believe Oyster-Adams is, too. [/quote]

But PP said fluent.  Your kid is not going to be fluent with just elementary immersion.  They need to continue the language thru middle school and high school.  And it’s not just taking a foreign language like a traditional school but actually taking other subjects in the language too.

Oyster tracks to Adams but it’s such a small middle school with limited course offerings, EC, and clubs.  Then after that it is a dead end.

So PP is correct that the only real path in this town to fluency is charter with the immersion charters to DCI.  The only other path is WIS which is private and 50k plus a year [/quote]

NP, and I’ve taught plenty of Oyster kids over the years.  Most are pretty much fluent in Spanish.  [/quote]

This is true. I believe all 8th graders pass the AP exam. [/quote]

Passing an AP exam just shows you are proficient.  It doesn’t not mean you are fluent.  Neither is just understanding.

Fluency is understanding, speaking, reading, and writing. [/quote]

+1, I got a 5 on the AP Spanish exam as a high school junior and I barely speak it now and was never fluent. I am fluent in French, which I didn't begin studying until college, because I lived and worked in France for several years, made friends who speak it and continue to speak it regularly. My Spanish classes in MS/HS definitely helped me early on with understanding how to learn a language, and because of the similarities in the languages.

I think the only way to get fluent is true immersion,which means living in a place where it's the primary language for some length of time. I'm sure the early exposure of attending an immersion elementary helps, but I think there are also other ways to get early exposure (speaking it with fluent parent or nanny, weekend language school, travel, and yes, even just having it as a weekly special).[/quote]

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