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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/going-beyond-intelligence/202309/second-language-immersion-is-not-always-best-school-choice

An alternative perspective on language immersion[/quote]

Oh that's interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Sounds like bottom line: if you're kid is already doing well AND expressed interest in languages, immersion may be fine but if you've got a SN kid, STEM kid, or kid otherwise very advanced, immersion may not be an ideal choice.

[b]I do think that around here, the immersion programs are just another way to hack the system and have your kid surrounded by other mostly UMC kids or kids whose parents care. Thusly, the immersion has fewer low level students, fewer FARMS students and therefore fewer disruptions. [/b]So in the end, if you're in a crummy pyramid, parents are still going to step on each other to gain these pots in Mcps. [/quote]

Any evidence to support this claim? Are families that enter the lottery for immersion programs disproportionately from high FARMS home schools?[/quote]

There was a study on this, but it's more than a decade old at this point and led to concrete policy proposals that were meant to break down the barriers to families putting their child in the immersion lottery.

In the past, the immersion lottery was held before kindergarten registration. So, if you wanted you child in the lottery, you needed to register in your local ES while they were still in Pre-K, get a student ID number, and then put your child in the lottery with that number.

This approach dramatically advantaged families who were "in the know" because the process required you to know someone who would explain the process to you and encourage you to register your child for K well before the normal time.

Then, the sibling link meant that there were very few slots available in some programs for kids who didn't have a sibling in the program.

So, if you were "in the know" enough with your first child to put them in the lottery and win a slot, you were guaranteed a slot for any younger children. At RCF, more than half of the K slots went to siblings at one point. So, you had 20 seats available out of 40 total, and hundreds in the lottery.

As a result of the study mentioned above, they changed the process to partially dismantle the sibling link and to move the immersion lottery to after K registration, as well as ramping up outreach to traditionally underrepresented groups. [/quote]

Mcps gaming their own system. lol[/quote]

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