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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's what I heard at the meeting, loud and clear.  "We are tired of defending ourselves to the other parents in the neighborhood."  As if that were somehow the immersion kids' fault.

As for escaping high FARMS elsewhere, I suppose that may be true for some.  It wasn't for me or for my kids' friends' parents.  That long bus ride, all that homework that you can't help with, the extra help you have to give your kids for English spelling and grammar .... to do all that you really have to be committed to the idea of language immersion.

Just to test your theory, I took a quick look at the directory from last year.  THere are a lot of Silver Spring kids there, but that's not surprising given the size of SS, its proximity to RCF and the level of interest in immersion.  I"m thinking there are 225 immersion kids all together, and here are the non-Silver Spring locations they came from:

Chevy Chase 30 Potomac 2 Kensington 16 Rockville 13 Takoma Park 8 Germantown 3 Gaithersburg 5 Bethesda 11 Burtonsville 3 Olney 2 Wheaton 1 Clarksburg 2 Boyds 2 Laytonsville 2 Damascus 2

So that's 102 kids from places other than Silver Spring, and the further-away locations send fewer kids, which makes sense given the long bus ride.  Maybe some are fleeing bad schools but many are not.
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"We are tired of defending ourselves to the other parents in the neighborhood" is nothing like "why should our kids go to school with poor kids".  I'm not interested in any further discussion with you, though, since you're only out here to slander parents you probably don't even know.  Go do something productive, rather than whiling your time away on DCUM stirring up trouble.[/quote]

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