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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our family is interested in immersion schooling so my child will have meaningful exposure to a foreign language and gain fluency.  I understand it's not uncommon that children can actually later be behind their peers in terms of English language standardized testing so I realize not every "outcome" will be a good one, but to answer your question, we want our child in a foreign language immersion program so that they csn learn another language well.  I do wish this could take place at our home school.

I have heard of some refer to the opportunity in sort of an elitist way so I think I understand some of your frustration.

I suggest we keep this thread about the waitlist since there is a group of people appreciating the information sharing. And then if someone would like to continue discussing the MCPS immersion programs, that person should start a new thread.[/quote]

My only experience with immersion programs are white families pushing to move their kid from their home school (that is predominantly native Spanish speakers) to another school that’s a different demographic to learn Spanish from teachers. Wouldn’t you rather your kid be immersed by native speakers? Without the longer bus ride and lack of data showing it helps your child? [/quote]

This is one of the many reasons I prefer dual immersion to one way immersion, for Spanish at least.  Families who want their kids to become bilingual in Spanish can get that but at a school full of native Spanish speaking kids rather than in a special immersion program that often has very different (richer/whiter) demographics, native English and Spanish speakers are on equal footing, programs are able to hire from the limited pool of bilingual teachers to benefit both native Spanish speakers and native English speakers alike rather than primarily native English speakers, etc

I just wish there were more dual immersion schools, and that there were ways for some out of boundary kids to be allowed in.  Part of me thinks they should do away with one way immersion Spanish programs entirely, and instead have the immersion lottery send kids to dual immersion programs in heavily Spanish-speaking/EML elementary schools instead...[/quote]

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