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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at Fox Mill and love the Japanese Immersion program. I have no problem with including out of boundary kids in the program but our school is not over crowded. The additional kids in the program help it stay viable. I know that some immersion programs are limited to people who are in boundary for that school and I think that is fine. If a specialized program is leading to over crowding then common sense says that you limit access to that program. [/quote]

9:43 here.  JIP also used to be at Floris and is still at Great Falls.  Either Fox Mill or Floris used to get additional staff beyond 1.5 to not drain reg ed teachers.
2 programs for the same language at adjacent schools is evidence of the random nature of where the program was installed.  The merger
 http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2005/oct/12/japanese-program-moving/

Even at peak numbers pre Colvin Run the GFES JIP did not have the numbers pre merger.  CRES did not want the JIP but it did open an AAP center.  It seems that Fritsch might have stumbled upon an obvious solution for French with Dunn Loring.  But that leaves FCPS with 2 French sites in the scope of things beng in the same area of the county?  [/quote]

Great Falls has JIP but rumor has it that it is being phased out, they never got to the numbers to have 2 classes. What I have heard is that GFES is finishing out the current crop of JIP kids but has not added classes for the last few years. I know a fifth grader in JIP at GFES so I don't know when this started.

Fox Mill has 2 JIP classes and switch teachers mid way in the day. The classes start with 30 or more kids in first grade. DC is in fifth now and the classes are 19 and 22 kids. I don't know if we have an extra Teacher or not, the classes would be large enough to have 2 Teachers any way. We have 1 Teacher for Math/Science in Japanese and 1 Teacher for LA/Social Studies in English. I think the Gen Ed classes are smaller then usual in some of the grades, maybe that is where the extra Teacher is? [/quote]

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