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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's get real. You have families trying to get into RCF immersion just to go to Westland MS. Driving their kid or their kid taking two buses to go to a West county predominantly white MS (Westland) is not a big deal for families trying to escape their "diverse" home middle school. [/quote]

I'm sure they exist but I haven't met these people.  I live in a "diverse" neighborhood and we know lots of people who have lotteried for immersion (some get it, some don't).  Missing out on the neighborhood school and the sense of the community that goes with it has been seen as a "con" by everyone I've talked to -- although of course the foreign language aspect is a strong plus.

Given our location, people I know are disappointed by the Westland articulation and loss of SSIMS as a choice.[/quote]

Why not simply go back to the middle school your kid is zoned based on where you live? Middle school world language classes start in 6th grade. From speaking to immersion families, kids start off with Spanish 1 in 6th. So just go back to your neighborhood MS when finished with 5th grade at a Spanish immersion school.[/quote]

The benefit of going to an immersion middle school is to continue with the language at the appropriate level.  They take 2 periods of immersion Spanish and then do world history in Spanish.  My oldest is at SSIMS and it is going well, we feel lucky that there was an east side alternative to Westland. 
 Almost everyone we know from the east side of the county from her RCF class is either at SSIMS or their home middle school; a couple go to Westland.  Our youngest, still at RCF, will go to our home east side middle since SSIMS is no longer an option, and we aren't interested in Westland.[/quote]

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