Anonymous
Post 04/14/2014 07:18     Subject: Language Immersion
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Would it be crazy to pass up the opportunity to enroll in a language immersion charter school for a school that is closer to home? This is for PK3.


My family started our child in a language immersion program at PK 3, but there was no way to continue without subjecting ourselves to the lottery, and even if we won, driving our kid across town, merely for the sake of the language. We decided to stay closer to home at a quality school. Personally, I would of course have liked to have had everything: quality school, no cross-town drive, and language immersion. But we are not in any kind of lucky position to make that happen. We hope that we can get decent language training for our child as soon as DCPS can make it available. Now, after two years of Spanish immersion, our kid doesn't speak a lick of it. Oh well.



What PK3 language immersion option required you to repeat the lottery?


I thought the same thing then thought it must have been a private PK3 (school, daycare, etc) immersion program.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2014 23:56     Subject: Language Immersion
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Would it be crazy to pass up the opportunity to enroll in a language immersion charter school for a school that is closer to home? This is for PK3.


My family started our child in a language immersion program at PK 3, but there was no way to continue without subjecting ourselves to the lottery, and even if we won, driving our kid across town, merely for the sake of the language. We decided to stay closer to home at a quality school. Personally, I would of course have liked to have had everything: quality school, no cross-town drive, and language immersion. But we are not in any kind of lucky position to make that happen. We hope that we can get decent language training for our child as soon as DCPS can make it available. Now, after two years of Spanish immersion, our kid doesn't speak a lick of it. Oh well.



What PK3 language immersion option required you to repeat the lottery?
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2014 23:18     Subject: Language Immersion
Anonymous wrote:Ideally, I would love to have my DS in a language immersion school, but at what cost ( 1hour long commute going and coming), not being able to participate in after-school activities, no opportunity to coordinated with neighbors, etc.


So I am opting for the decent neighborhood school.


Am struggling with this as well.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2014 11:55     Subject: Language Immersion
Ideally, I would love to have my DS in a language immersion school, but at what cost ( 1hour long commute going and coming), not being able to participate in after-school activities, no opportunity to coordinated with neighbors, etc.


So I am opting for the decent neighborhood school.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2014 22:28     Subject: Language Immersion
Anonymous wrote:Not if it makes sense for you. For me, it would depend on the language and the school. Immersion is very important to me, Spanish in particular. But that said, there are only a few immersion schools in the city that I would choose to commute to over a decent neighborhood school. On the other hand, I would follow the immersion charter that we are actually in very far, and in fact I have.


Same for our family, but we are in a DCPS language school.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2014 22:22     Subject: Language Immersion
19:23 here. MV
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2014 22:14     Subject: Language Immersion
we left our IB for an immersion school and I wish we had not. Maybe in 5 years I will be glad we did it but now it just means a hellish drive across town to a charter and our DC spends over an hour in transit every day when before we walked to school in 5 minutes. If this were not about trying to hand down my family's language and culture I would not have done it, as it is I sort of wish we hadn't gotten the spot.

But again, if in 5 years DC can read and write decently, it may prove to have been worth it.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2014 21:41     Subject: Language Immersion
Anonymous wrote:Not if it makes sense for you. For me, it would depend on the language and the school. Immersion is very important to me, Spanish in particular. But that said, there are only a few immersion schools in the city that I would choose to commute to over a decent neighborhood school. On the other hand, I would follow the immersion charter that we are actually in very far, and in fact I have.


Which school? Thanks!!
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2014 19:23     Subject: Language Immersion
Not if it makes sense for you. For me, it would depend on the language and the school. Immersion is very important to me, Spanish in particular. But that said, there are only a few immersion schools in the city that I would choose to commute to over a decent neighborhood school. On the other hand, I would follow the immersion charter that we are actually in very far, and in fact I have.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2014 19:14     Subject: Language Immersion
Nobody really know WTF language immersion is. I wouldn't worry about it.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2014 17:42     Subject: Language Immersion
Anonymous wrote:Would it be crazy to pass up the opportunity to enroll in a language immersion charter school for a school that is closer to home? This is for PK3.


My family started our child in a language immersion program at PK 3, but there was no way to continue without subjecting ourselves to the lottery, and even if we won, driving our kid across town, merely for the sake of the language. We decided to stay closer to home at a quality school. Personally, I would of course have liked to have had everything: quality school, no cross-town drive, and language immersion. But we are not in any kind of lucky position to make that happen. We hope that we can get decent language training for our child as soon as DCPS can make it available. Now, after two years of Spanish immersion, our kid doesn't speak a lick of it. Oh well.
dcmom
Post 04/11/2014 17:14     Subject: Language Immersion
Not to me. I think it depends on your priorities. Commute is huge for me. Our commute to PK3 next year will be approximately 40 feet--can't beat that.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2014 17:13     Subject: Language Immersion
Would it be crazy to pass up the opportunity to enroll in a language immersion charter school for a school that is closer to home? This is for PK3.