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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Once you are in MCPS you get phone calls in English and Spanish and mailings in the English (and other languages if you requested to receive their mailings in another language) telling you about information meetings for all the choice programs and reminding you about application deadlines.  In the DCC and NEC, the children get visits from the high school choice programs so they can learn about these.  
If parents don't read the mailings, don't listen to the phone calls/voice messages from the school system, don't attend information meetings or if they can't go to the meetings, don't look at the MCPS website I am unsympathetic.  The language immersion programs are a little different because you have to apply before you are actually in the school system.  I think I heard about them from other parents.  It would be more challenging for MCPS to advertise these to prospective students unless they required families to register their children for kindergarten earlier than they do now and then give them information about the language immersion programs.  What exactly does Will Jawando expect them to do?  Send a blanket mailing to every household in MCPS in multiple languages?  I am so happy he did not win the election![/quote]

I'm the one upthread complaining about how Jawando passed up RT, but I do think he has a point about the immersion programs.  Not only do you have to apply before you are in the system, you have to apply before schools do a big registration push.  This guarantees that the only people who hear about it are either "in the know" or have older siblings in the system.  It's profoundly unfair.  As for what MCPS can do, I'd start with at least linking the immersion application to the big registration push in May, and dismantling the sibling link. [/quote]

What does that mean to be "in the know"?  We moved here from out of state and didn't know anyone in the area when we moved here.  At the time, we had a 4.5 year old, so I looked at the MCPS website regarding the public school system and learned about the immersion programs.

I do think they should advertise the programs more to the community.  Maybe have information sessions at pre-schools/daycares.  I'm sure there are other ways.  And they should link the lottery with the regular registration instead of requiring registration and lottery forms by April.  Getting rid of the sibling link won't increase diversity in the programs though.  It would increase the number of different families, but they would have the same percentage of white families as before because... lottery.  [/quote]

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