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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Spoken like a true immersion parent whose children will never have to interacte with the "apartment kids" but sounds so high and mighty.[/quote]

And one who has their kid in immersion only to get away from their own predominantly non-white Silver Spring/Takoma Park school.[/quote]

These posters are confirming my points!  SOOO glad to be out of that school.  SOOO glad to be away from closet racists/classist wannabes in that cluster.  Ugh.[/quote]

PP here.  Feel like I need to clarify this.  My child is not white so I didn't feel the need to "get away" from kids in SS/TP.  I really wanted her to get a biingual education, and was so excited about this opportunity.  And immersion was a lot more work for us as a family, not an easy way to get away from our local schools.  What a shock to find out that in this cluster my child was not welcome, and it would be assumed that we were just trying to get the "better" option without paying for it.  These posts are good indicators of what the English program parents really think about immersion.  As I said before, it's a toxic attitude that is a real negative at the school.

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That's fine and nice to hear and I do believe that is the case for some portion of the immersion families. But the poster who went off on the screed about how RCF English parents "secretly mad" that immersion parents pay less for their houses and their kids get to to go to Westland/BCC only confirms our suspicions about the intentions of many immersion families.  I was at the meeting she cited and don't recall that coming up, at all.

For the record, most  of us who bought in RCF did so for the location and the schools. We aren't bitter that we paid more. In fact, we think we are smarter than those who bought in SS/TP thinking that the schools would magically improve or that their kids would somehow get into a magnet program or that their crappy crime-ridden neighborhoods aren't that bad. I've seen several families insist on keeping their child in immersion when it clearly is not a good fit but they don't want their child at their home school.

As for having the immersion program in the school. Most of my friends and neighbors don't really have an issue with it. However, it is our neighborhood school and having the program there makes our school more crowded and takes away a lot of time in the PTA dealing with immersion issues (bussing, COSA's etc) that other schools don't need to deal with.  And, by the way, there are many English-side parents on the PTA.[/quote]

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