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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ask for the data form these immersion experiments. Does it make a difference for native English speakers? Or [b]is it just a fancy excuse to bus kids in to communities with high populations of native Spanish soeajers to increase the school’s report card?[/b] Everyone I know who started in one has left once they saw what was behind the curtain[/quote]

This is a weird critique, since most of the kids at WTPES and BMES are coming from elsewhere in the down-county, and RCFES is a BCC feeder.

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Yes, RCF feeds into BCC which is why the immersion program is primarily made up of [b]families trying to escape the DCC schools[/b].[/quote]

This is so accurate. I have had multiple families articulate exactly this and express zero interest or passion for their kid learning Spanish. It's very annoying. [/quote]

I don’t believe you have had “multiple families” articulate (haha) that they are using Spanish immersion to escape their own schools. I call BS.

Maybe they like the idea of having choices for middle school after immersion (home, Westland, SSI), but no one is choosing immersion for these reasons only. The classes are enormous! The teachers don’t stick around for very long. [b]The local CC families are kind of jerky and jealous about the program. [/b]

Easily half of the immersion fifth grade class continues at Silver Spring International or goes back to their home middle school.

I have had kids in immersion and none of them continued to Westland/BCc- it was too far. But I loved that they got the exposure to Spanish!

The full immersion programs at RCF and Sligo creek are relics from a different time- the new model is dual immersion and it’s way better- they put it in schools where at least half of the kids are native speakers of the target language. The dual programs are great bc the native speakers of Spanish are the experts for half the day. I wish they’d been around when my kids were little.

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Or you meant to write the Spanish immersion families act like they are entitled and better than the "local CC families" ?[/quote]

The bigger issue, IMO, is that the [b]Immersion families are completely oblivious to the families in the English side[/b]. Whenever we meet a new Immersion family, they assume we are in immersion too, probably because I am white and my kids are blonde. So when they ask who my kids' teachers are and I respond with English-side teachers, they look at me blankly because they have no idea of who the English teachers are (and this is not the case for vice versa). A few years ago when my oldest was in 5th grade, a parent who I didn't know but with whom I was volunteering asked me what we options we were thinking of for MS, again, assuming that my kid was in immersion. It just gets old. [/quote]

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