Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t know that oyster adams accept English dominant students after 1st grade.

Yep, if you are coming from another bilingual.

Even if you are English dominant?

I'm genuinely intrigued by this comment. The idea that a kid who has been at a dual-lingua school for 7 years might not be qualified to attend 5th grade because they don't speak Spanish at home seems...off. If the belief really is that kids an't be proficient after 7 years of immersion then what's the point of immersion.

For those at dual/immersion schools, is this type of judgment and classist approach representative?

Anonymous wrote:You’ll be lucky to NOT get in. New principal does not like white people. Only Latinos. go somewhere else!!!

Why do you assume PP is white?

You’ll be lucky to NOT get in. New principal does not like white people. Only Latinos. go somewhere else!!!

Anonymous wrote:There's aren't separate English/Spanish slots after a certain grade - 2nd? If they are coming from another DCPS bilingual, they don't have to prove proficiency. If they are coming from a charter, I think they have to take a proficiency test.

That said, 6 seems like a lot of spaces to move and they don't seems to admit many after school starts based on prior years' data (except for in Fall 2020- but that was a totally different scenario).

this is correct. After 1st grade, there aren't separate English/Spanish dominant lotteries. After that grade, if you lottery in from another Spanish immersion DCPS, you do not have to take a proficiency test. If you lottery in from a charter, like Mundo, you have to pass a proficiency (not dominance) test.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which grade?

OP, Oh my gosh! Obviously forgot that info. 5th.

If you haven't gotten an offer by the end of August, you are very unlikely to get an offer by the end of October based on past years' data. Some schools do continue to make offers past October, but they aren't published in the available data. If that happens, the numbers can move very quickly because most parents don't want to move their kids that late in the year. So it might happen, but not likely. As PP mentioned, past first grade, DCPS dual language schools can transfer without a grade-level Spanish proficiency test, everyone else, including charters, will need to pass the test.

There's aren't separate English/Spanish slots after a certain grade - 2nd? If they are coming from another DCPS bilingual, they don't have to prove proficiency. If they are coming from a charter, I think they have to take a proficiency test.

That said, 6 seems like a lot of spaces to move and they don't seems to admit many after school starts based on prior years' data (except for in Fall 2020- but that was a totally different scenario).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t know that oyster adams accept English dominant students after 1st grade.

Yep, if you are coming from another bilingual.

Even if you are English dominant?

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t know that oyster adams accept English dominant students after 1st grade.

Yep, if you are coming from another bilingual.

Didn’t know that oyster adams accept English dominant students after 1st grade.

Anonymous wrote:Which grade?

OP, Oh my gosh! Obviously forgot that info. 5th.

Which grade?

Anonymous wrote:Maybe by October. What school is he now?

Mundo Verde

Maybe by October. What school is he now?

Anonymous wrote:Our son currently is number 6 on the waitlist for Oyster/Adams, English Dominant. They started at 12. Do you think there is any chance they will get in?

No.

Our son currently is number 6 on the waitlist for Oyster/Adams, English Dominant. They started at 12. Do you think there is any chance they will get in?