The language in the reopening plan implies that the speciality programs will handle DL differently. I look forward to attending the town hall to get more information.

There is a town hall meeting for parents of kids in specialty programs, scheduled for August 12th. Perhaps it may be helpful for those who are unsure whether to start/continue with these programs.

Anonymous wrote:My son attends a TAG school. The DL is pretty universal in PG county so you would pull your child out and go where? Why lose the spot? Why not see what it is like first? I don’t understand how immersion schools work does excuse my ignorance on that topic

OP here.
Immersion schools have all instruction in a foreign language (French or Spanish). There are also the partial immeraion programs at Chavez (Spanish) and Paintbranch (Mandarin). I would expect that would be extremely difficult for parents who are not somewhat fluent in those languages.
My daughter is in a TAG middle school and we don't want to lose our spot so we are sticking with DL.
If my kid was a rising K student into French Immersion I would probably give up the seat and go toy neighborhood school.

Anonymous wrote:My son attends a TAG school. The DL is pretty universal in PG county so you would pull your child out and go where? Why lose the spot? Why not see what it is like first? I don’t understand how immersion schools work does excuse my ignorance on that topic

PP here. I understand that the plan is universal, but if it's not working for my child I won't continue. I'll pull him out and homeschool. It wasn't horrible at the end of last year, but it certainly wasn't amazing. I don't expect that it will be any easier this year, and I think we could be more productive and efficient homeschooling. But I'm not going to jump the gun on that because I do want to see if it's different.

My son attends a TAG school. The DL is pretty universal in PG county so you would pull your child out and go where? Why lose the spot? Why not see what it is like first? I don’t understand how immersion schools work does excuse my ignorance on that topic

Being at a specialty school has definitely made this time more stressful. I have a 3rd grader in a TAG school. If he was in a neighborhood school I would absolutely homeschool for this year and re-enroll next year. But I definitely don't want to lose his spot, and I feel stuck.

As it is, I have a feeling that there's a good chance we'll pull out mid-year and have to scramble to homeschool at that point. I'll definitely have some curriculum already chosen just in case.

I'm wondering if the 100% Distance Learning decision has impacted parent's decisions on sending their kids to some of the Specialty Programs. Especially if they are just starting at an Immersion school.