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[quote=Anonymous]Just to elaborate on why I think dual immersion is a joke in Alexandria. Many of the teachers don't speak very good Spanish. I've spotted many errors in work brought home and I often hear that they just lapse into English or "Spanglish" to explain difficult concepts. Also, most children are lost and not comprehending by the time they get to 3rd or 4th grade, so they are learning neither the language or the subject matter. This seems to be lost on the schools, because the kids are still (barely) passing in the subject matter--they don't seem to think that dropping from an A student to a C student is worth investigating. So, these kids go on to middle school significantly behind their monolingual peers. And finally, where do they go with the dual immersion concept after elementary? Nowhere. Obviously with bilingual or linguistically interested parents, the result can be different, but such children are clearly a very small minority within the program.[/quote]
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