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[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]

This is silly. OP was asking about ESes. For ESes, there are immersion DCPSes (only Spanish) or charters (Spanish, Mandarin & French; there is also Sela for Hebrew, but I don't think it's a true bilingual/immersion set up). Yes, eventually you will need to head to a charter or a private or a suburb or supplement externally to keep up/improve proficiency in HS, but it is not the case that only charters do elementary immersion, which was her actual question. I know plenty of kids from Oyster who eventually become fluent without heading to a charter.[/quote]

[b]Sure there are DCPS schools.  No one said there were not. [/b] What poster above said was fluency path.

How do you know all the Oyster kids are fluent?  What objective data are you basing that on? I highly doubt all Oyster kids are fluent.[/quote]

Lol.  12/30/2025, 20:02, the post that kicked off this entire back and forth, said EXACTLY that.  To achieve fluency you need immersion, [i]which is only available in charters[/i].  That's the false statement that is being debunked and here you come to say "no one said there were not" DCPS immersion schools.  Yes they didsay that; yes they were wrong.[/quote]

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