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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In theory, I always thought immersion schools sounded nice. Who doesn't want their child to learn another language?

However, from watching my friends pull out of them one by one in upper grades, I have to conclude there can be issues. There are only so many hours in a day. Something has to give. Finding and retaining good staff becomes additionally challenging.

The other, more insidious thing that an immersion school does is cherry pick. If you can't add students you lose from attrition, you end up with your most dedicated and proficient students as the others fall by the wayside.

Is this bad? I suppose not, if the system gets extra help for students who need it. However, from what I've heard from parents who have left o-a, Stokes, MVthat doesn't always happen. Which is why they leave.

As I said, our Montessori is accredited (I don't know if it's ami or AMS and I can't remember the difference and I don't care) and does a good job of working with kids at a variety of levels. It also accepts into elementary. I agree with a language requirements doing that would be hard. But I'm wondering, does the Montessori aspect of lamb help them reach a wide variety of learning levels? Do they have less counsel outs than the pure language schools?

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What are you asking?  LAMB does an excellent job with all children.  I don't have experience with any other school as we were accepted into LAMB and did not look at anything else.  Congratulations on your accreditation, LAMB is also accredited, but not with AMI.  I do not believe there are records that are publicly available on "counsel-outs".[/quote]

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