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[quote=Anonymous]English Academy parents certainly appreciate the fundraising and volunteer hours that Spanish Immersion parents dedicate to Rock Creek Forest.

Their good intentions and dedication do not make up for the following:

English Academy children have approximately half of the resources (books, texts, any type of written materials) than students in other MCPS Elementary School have available. This is because the materials can not be shared across the programs.

So for example, the RCF library has less books available for English Academy children to take out because MCPS provides the same book allowance to RCF as it does to other Elementary Schools of similar size.  The difference is that the RCF librarian must purchase books in two languages.  The English Academy children thus have fewer books available to them.  The Spanish Immersion children also have fewer books available to them in Spanish but they can take books out in Spanish or English (as can some of our bilingual families).  The children who have the fewest library books available are the children who are in the English Academy and only speak English.

Grade level resources are another example of how English Academy children have fewer resources available to them because RCF houses the Immersion program.

In other schools teachers can share materials across the entire grade level.  In RCF all materials must be purchased in duplicate so fewer materials are purchased for each program.  There is less variety for both English Academy students and Spanish Immersion students when it comes to classroom novels and other classroom resources.

Both programs lose because of this system.  The English Academy children have fewer materials available to them than other MCPS Elementary School Students.  The Spanish Immersion children also have fewer materials available to them.

The difference is that Spanish Immersion children leave the school with the gift of fluency in a second language.

English Academy children just leave RCF with less exposure to different materials than their peers in other MCPS schools.

Many English Academy parents greatly appreciate the work of Spanish Immersion. Nonetheless, it would take an incredible amount of fundraising and volunteer work to overcome the inequities that housing the Spanish Immersion program causes the homeschool population.

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