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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So there are few options but to move the start to first grade.  Maybe if you don't want immersion enough to move your child after K, you should just stay where you are.[/quote]

While I appreciate your efforts in this direction to make the process fairer I think that losing a year of instruction in Spanish weakens the program too much especially for the partial immersion programs that only have the first year in K as full immersion.  I also think you are going to see far more kids dropping out who can't handle the transition from preschool to K in English, to 1st in Spanish, to 2-6 in partial Spanish.  Anyone who never had immersion before will certainly not be able to test in after 1st grade even for those willing to try for those opening of slots.[/quote]

+1. K is such a valuable year for learning language.  Although kids can and do become fluent as they grow older, there is a lot of research that shows the earlier the better.

I would prefer to see much increased pre-K outreach, and make K registration earlier in the year (say January), with allowances for late registration.  It is better for the county too if they have K numbers earlier.  [/quote]

Yeah there's actually a mini battle going on inside the partial immersion programs over how little Spanish instruction is actually given.  In K everything is completely in Spanish, 1-3 is Reading/Writing/Social Studies in English + Science/Math in Spanish, in fourth and fifth the Spanish instruction gets reduced often due to a number of factors such as pull out for extracurriculars like band or placement in compacted math which can't be given in Spanish or a subset of immersion parents requesting to give math instruction in English so kids aren't confused on standardized tests.

Even in full immersion English language instruction begins to be introduced in fourth.  So in my view that first year of language instruction in K is critical.[/quote]

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