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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get off your high horse with threats.  Please do lobby to have it removed.  The BCC cluster does not welcome the program that is the most sought after in the county and the BCC cluster doesn't deserve to have it.  I'd love to see it somewhere else! [/quote]

NP.  Immersion is a dantastic program which many BCC parents welcome and try to get into!  But since it is a lottery the odds are slim.  I would be sad to see it go.  A vocal minority of BCC parents is against immersion because they somehow feel that immersion kids are getting something for free that a BCC parent had to pay a lot for.  There is a lot of financial snobbery in our cluster.[/quote]

Ha ha!

OK, no, that's just not true. I would never in a million years send my kid to an immersion school in MCPS. They're not how immersion should be, which is learning about the history and culture of the countries that speak the language. One cannot simply dissociate language from culture like this. I went to a bilingual school where we studied literature, history and geography from both countries. It was a ton of extra work, but worth it to become fully bilingual and bicultural. In addition, these immersion kids rarely become fully bilingual. I understand parents wanting to send their kids to an immersion if the overall academic level is higher for some reason than in the surrounding schools... but it doesn't look like that's the case in the situation we're discussing.

I have no opinion on where the immersion part of RCF should go. I just wanted to chime in to say that not everyone is a fan of MCPS immersion. [/quote]

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