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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think there is any rule directly to this.  And as you mentioned, one Spanish immersion has a seperate admission track for those already fluent in Spanish.  So things are possible.

It just makes no sense to me to have a great school yet not allow anyone in the 3rd, 4th or 5th grade to transfer in.  Not with all the moves that happen to and from this city.

Or perhaps they could allow new student in the upper grades even without prior knowledge of Hebrew.  Isreali schools readily absorb such students, why not here?[/quote]

It is my understanding that Lamb is no longer allowed to have two tracks for admission. [/quote]

I am LAMB parent - and this is true. It's a real tightrope for immersion schools. Have native speaker children helps the school culture (though it should be noted that knowing how to speak is not the same thing as being fully fluent in a language), yet as public schools, schools can't show preference for native speakers, even as with later grades there is usually space due to attrition. Yet, if schools were to admit non-fluent students in later grades and had to have a separate track - tracking hurts the school culture (go look at the YY threads - people don't like it). The Charter Board needs to make an exception for language test admissions in later grades where this is space. Language fluency is not an intelligence test or an academic test - it's just language fluency. [/quote]

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