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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kindergartener in the RCF spanish immersion program.  I guess maybe all this is just so far off, but I can't figure out why I should care.

Can someone answer this question for me - is there a spanish immersion program continuation at BCC?  If not, I'd personally rather just send my kid to SSIMS and Northwood (our home schools)  because Westland and BCC are so far away.

I can see being upset if your kids are already at Westland because of course you'd want them to stay with their class on to BCC - that makes total sense to me.  But if your kids are still at RCF, then they can go to SSIMS and still be with their friends for their assigned high school.

Or am I missing something?[/quote]

What's glaringly missing to me is not everyone lives in the cluster where the immersion is located.  If you live in Damascus and have a kid at RCF who wants to continue immersion they can't do that at the local middle school.  [b]If they do complete immersion at Westland or SSIMS [/b]that's where their "friends" will be.  If they go back to Damascus they will A) not know most kids B) not be able to take higher level Spanish which was the [b]point of being in Immersion in the first place[/b].[/quote]

The middle school program at SSIMS is not complete immersion.  It is partial immersion.

One of my kids went to a magnet for middle school after being in immersion.  He took foreign language there.  Not immersion, no, but foreign language including grammar (largely missing in ES immersion).  He then went on - with other immersion kids - to take higher level language in high school.  He is doing great and spent a month abroad last summer, where his host family raved about his fluency.

It is not necessary to be in full immersion the whole way through to accomplish the goal of choosing immersion.[/quote]

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